Sanage ware jar

Object Details

• Description

  Jar with high shoulder and globular form, low straight lip, and spreading foot.

  Clay: coarse brownish-gray stoneware.

  Glaze: "natural"; that is, occurring accidentally in those areas covered by ash in firing.

  Decoration: none.

• Label

  The shapes of Chinese Tang-dynasty lead-glazed jars inspired imitations in Japan. This distinctive Tang shape appears in the rare Japanese lead-glazed wares, in Sue ware, and in the intentionally glazed ware that was beginning to be made at kilns in the Sanage district, near modern Nagoya. This unglazed Sanage ware jar bears areas of accidental ash glaze on the upper surfaces, formed by deposits of wood ash during the firing. Originally this jar had a cap-like lid, with knob handle, that fit over the short neck.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Ceramics: from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to December 16, 1984)

  Japanese Ceramics from Past to Present (February 18, 1983 to February 16, 1984)

  A Decade of Discovery: Selected Acquisitions 1970-1980 (November 9, 1979 to May 22, 1980)

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

• Origin

  Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  700s

• Place

  Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Topic

  Art, Nara period (645 - 794), Stoneware, Wood-ash glaze, Sanage ware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)