Suzu ware storage jar
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Period
early 14th century -
Geography
Suzu kilns, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan -
Material
Unglazed gray stoneware -
Dimension
H x Diam (overall): 49 x 40.4 cm (19 5/16 x 15 7/8 in) -
Accession Number
F1998.79 -
EDAN ID
edanmdm:fsg_F1998.79
Object Details
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Description
Storage jar with small mouth (tsubo), formed by coiling-and-throwing, finished by paddle and anvil, in several stages, using paddle carved with parallel grooves, creating striated surface on body from neck to near base. Smooth upright, short neck with rim rolled outward. Overall vessel form off balance, with mouth not aligned directly over narrow base.Clay: Stoneware, containing numerous small stones, gray on surface as result of firing in heavy reduction.Glaze: none. Light dusting of wood-ash "natural glaze" over shoulder, now dissolved, left whitish specks where clay was protected from reduction.Decoration: none.Mark: short vertical line incised on shoulder just below neck, usually interpreted as "potter's mark." -
Marks
Short vertical line incised on shoulder just below neck, usually interpreted as "potter's mark." -
Provenance
Unidentified owner, Japan [1]To 1998Eric J. Zetterquist, New York, acquired from an unidentified owner in Japan, to 1998 [2]From 1998Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Eric J. Zetterquist in 1998Notes:[1] According to Curatorial Note 4, Louise A. Cort, May 7, 1998, in the object record.[2] See note 1. -
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection -
Exhibition History
Storage Jars of Asia (October 29, 2000 to March 10, 2002)Beyond the Legacy--Anniversary Acquisitions of the Freer Gallery of Art (October 11, 1998 to April 11, 1999) -
Previous custodian or owner
Eric J. Zetterquist -
Origin
Suzu kilns, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan -
Credit Line
Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment -
Type
Vessel -
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