Storage Jar
late 1300s–1400s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Storage Jar, late 1300s–1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Shigaraki ware); height: 45.7 cm (18 in.); diameter: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1973.18 This jar was probably made using a coiling method, where coils of clay are stacked atop each other and smoothed to form its structure.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Shigaraki ware)
- Dimensions
- height: 45.7 cm (18 in.); Diameter: 42 cm (16 9/16 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1973.18
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen, Asian Autumn: Early Ceramics from Japan and Korea, Koshigaraki - The Shigaraki Jar in the Middle Ages, Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation, Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation, Clay as Soft Power: Shigaraki Ware in Postwar America and Japan, <em>Folk Traditions in Japanese Art.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 20-October 29, 1978); Japan House Gallery, New York (November 14, 1978-January 7, 1979); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, (January 26-March 11, 1979)., <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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