Medium-sized dish fragment

Object Details

• Description

  Medium-sized dish (missing portions of rim and wall).

  Clay: light grey stoneware.

  Glaze: under-developed greyish nearly-opaque ash glaze, covering three irregularly-shaped splashes of iron pigment positioned around rim on interior approximately equidistantly.

  Three stacking stilt scars in interior.

  Contains stickers.

• Marks

  One sticker states the kiln name "Oh-hira".

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Origin

  Ohira kiln group, Ohira, Toki city, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. Yokota

• Type

  Vessel

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• Place

  Toki city, Ohira, Japan, Ohira kiln group, Gifu prefecture

• Topic

  Mino ware, Art, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)