Paddle-and-anvil-formed jar with kiln-change glaze

Object Details

• Artist

  Ariyama Choyu 有山長佑 （四代長太郎） (Japan, born 1935)

• Description

  Jar made of light brown, hard-fired pottery; nearly-spherical body shaped by paddle-and-anvil expansion of a wheel-thrown form; flat, string-cut base; short neck ending in wide, everted, nearly-horizontal rim.

  Iron-based glaze is chocolate-colored, suffused with irregular yellowish coloration ("kiln transmutation") on shoulder at "front" of jar.

• Inscriptions

  Mark: on base, incised mark of maker, four dots and Chinese character cho

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Kagoshima, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Masaji Yasunaga, Chairman, MYC Cultural Exchange Institute

• Type

  Vessel

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