Fragment of bowl

Object Details

• Provenance

  To 1993

  Miyoshi Municipal Board of Education, Japan, excavated from ash pit (haibara) in front of firebox, Kurozasa kiln #116, Miyoshi-cho, Nishi Kamo-gun, Japan. [1]

  From 1993

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Miyoshi Municipal Board of Education, Japan. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] According to notes from Louise Cort dated June 30, 1994, “These sherds were requested as part of the Smithsonian-Bunkacho collaborative research project on high-temperature green-glazed ceramics in East and Southeast Asia. They were acquired from the Miyoshi Board of Education (the local town directly responsible for the excavation of sites within its boundaries) by Saito Takamasa, a Japanese member of the project who is a specialist in Sanage wares and participated in numerous excavations of Sanage kiln sites.” See Curatorial Remark 3 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1. See also object record.

• Collection

  Freer Study Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Miyoshi Municipal Board of Education

• Origin

  Kurozasa kiln #116, Miyoshi-cho, Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Miyoshi Municipal Board of Education

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  800s

• Name

  Miyoshi Municipal Board of Education

• Place

  Aichi prefecture, Japan, Miyoshi-cho, Kurozasa kiln #116

• Topic

  Heian period (794 - 1185), Art, Sanage ware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)