Tea-leaf storage jar

Object Details

• Artist

  Nonomura Ninsei (active ca. 1646-77)

• Description

  Rectangular tea leaf storage jar with rounded profile, short neck and small out-turning lip.

  Clay: gray stoneware, fired reddish buff.

  Glaze: uneven reddish brown with black areas.

  Decoration: sherd of bowl rim adhering to one wall.

  Mark: Ninsei.

• Marks

  Ninsei

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei (March 19 to October 23, 2005)

  Faith and Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting from the Japanese Religious Traditions (March 20 to July 18, 2004)

  Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu (June 6, 1998 to February 15, 1999)

  Japanese Art (April 13 to November 21, 1995)

  Kyoto Ceramics (November 9, 1984 to April 25, 1985)

  Japanese Ceramics (June 22, 1982 to September 27, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics/Puppets (June 16, 1980 to July 14, 1980)

  Japanese Ceramics (July 15, 1980 to June 21, 1982)

  Japanese Ceramics (April 11, 1978 to January 17, 1980)

  Japanese Art (July 1, 1974 to April 10, 1978)

  Japanese Art: Paintings and Pottery (July 1, 1966 to May 2, 1973)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Name

  Nonomura, Ninsei

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Art, Stoneware, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)