Not currently on display at the V&A

Jar

ca. 1825-1925 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Fukushima Prefecture (made)

Storage jar of stoneware, the interior covered in a translucent light olive coloured glaze, the exterior covered in opaque semi-matt straw ash glaze with mottling and streaking.


Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Stoneware
Containers
Object type
Jar
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, glazed
Stoneware
Glazed
Brief description
Storage jar, stoneware with off-white glaze, Japan, Aizu Hongo kilns, ca. 1825-1925
Physical description
Storage jar of stoneware, the interior covered in a translucent light olive coloured glaze, the exterior covered in opaque semi-matt straw ash glaze with mottling and streaking.
Dimensions
  • Approx. height: 38.5cm
  • Footring width: 17.2cm
  • Mouth of jar diameter: 12.5cm
Styles
Edo
Meiji
Taisho
Gallery label
Jar Stoneware with off-white glaze Aizu Hongo kilns About 1825-1925(1986)
Production
Aizu Hongo, Fukushima prefecture, JAPAN
Bibliographic reference
'Hokkaido-Tohoku-Kanto', Vol I in 'Nihon Yakimono Shusei', Heibonsha (Tokyo, 1981), pls 293-301, pp 134-135: David Hale, 'Tohoku no yakimono', Yuzankaku (Tokyo, 1974), pp 216-221
Collection
East Asia Collection
Accession number
FE.9-1985

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2000
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O24289/jar-unknown/
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