Jar

Description

Storage jar or sake flask (go-shō-tokkuri), stoneware with a stepped shoulder, white slip, dark ame glaze on the rim and neck, and a version of the chrysanthemum and bambo (kikuzasa) and rock design painted in dark blue underglaze: Asia, East Asia, Japan, Tōhoku, Fukushima, Obori kiln, 19th century

Museum reference

V.2022.191.59

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Jar, Sake flask

Production information

Obori, Kiln
Fukushima-ken, Japan, East Asia

Date

19th century

Style / Culture

Edo period, Japanese
Meiji period, Japanese

Materials

Stoneware, Glaze, Pigment, Straw

References

Tōhoku no Yakimono, by David Hale, with Foreword by Prof. Fujio Koyama, pub. Yuzan Kaku, Tōkyō, 1974 (in Japanese translation), Bl.&Wh. Plate No. 15

Credit

The Anne and David Hale Collection of Tōhoku Ceramics