Fragment of vessel wall (sherd)

Object Details

• Description

  Stoneware, sandy, medium brown; convex surface unglazed except for lower edge of colorless ash glaze; concave surface glazed with black iron and opaque white rice-straw-ash glazes, mixing unevenly as milky blue.

• Provenance

  From 1992 to 1993

  Andrew Maske, Oxford, England, collected from the field adjacent to the Uchigaso kiln site, Nogata, Japan. [1]

  From 1993

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Andrew Maske, Oxford, England. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See Curatorial Remark 4 in the object record.

  [2] See object record.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Andrew Maske

• Origin

  Uchigaso kiln, Nogata, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. Andrew Maske

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Maske, Andrew

• Place

  Fukuoka prefecture, Japan, Uchigaso kiln, Nogata

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)