Tea Jar
1550-1600 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Tea jar with four loop handles of stoneware covered with iron glaze.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Glazed stoneware |
| Brief description | Tea jar, stoneware with iron glaze; Japan, Seto/Mino, 1550-1600 |
| Physical description | Tea jar with four loop handles of stoneware covered with iron glaze. |
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| Gallery label | Tea jar with loop handles
Seto or Mino kilns
Stoneware with brown iron glaze
1550-1650
V&A 169-1877
(December 2014) |
| Object history | Purchased from the Japanese Commissioners for the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, accessioned in 1877. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. |
| Association | |
| Bibliographic reference | Augustus Wollaston Franks and M. Shioda, Japanese Pottery. [London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1880. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks; 18.
Catalogue number 10 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 169-1877 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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