Jar with four lugs

Object Details

• Description

  Stoneware, formed by coiling and smoothing on slow-turning potter's wheel; formed in two sections, with seam visible on mid-body. The jar is fairly heavy for its size.

  Covered all over with red slip glaze; black glaze applied to shoulder, runs in rivulets down body.

• Inscriptions

  1. (Louise A. Cort, 6 December 1993) Paper label attached to base of jar bears printed name of Tamba Kotokan in Sasayama and inscription in ink: 65, jar with four lugs and variegated (yohen) glaze. Presumably this jar appeared in an exhibition at the Tamba Kotokan in Sasayama sometime before 1971, when the Hauges acquired it.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)

• Origin

  Tachikui, Hyogo prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

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