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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Jar

1825-1925 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Jar of red stoneware with greenish brown glaze over iron slip. Round shape with thick squared rim. Heavily thrown; flat base with thread-cutting marks. Interior glaze coverage complete; exterior glaze coverage to shoulders with extensive running and opacification; slip coverage over base and up to above glaze line. Spur marks on base.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with greenish brown glaze over iron slip
Brief description
Jar, red stoneware with greenish brown glaze over iron slip; Japan, Tsutsumi kilns, 1825-1925
Physical description
Jar of red stoneware with greenish brown glaze over iron slip. Round shape with thick squared rim. Heavily thrown; flat base with thread-cutting marks. Interior glaze coverage complete; exterior glaze coverage to shoulders with extensive running and opacification; slip coverage over base and up to above glaze line. Spur marks on base.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 14.2cm
  • Height: 11.9cm
Styles
Object history
Purchased from the collection of David and Anne Hale, residents in Sendai, northeastern Japan, from 1966 to 1972
Collection
Accession number
FE.16-1985

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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