A large stoneware jar
A large stoneware jar

SHIGARAKI WARE, LATE MUROMACHI-MOMOYAMA PERIOD (16TH CENTURY)

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A large stoneware jar
Shigaraki ware, late Muromachi-Momoyama period (16th century)
Of ovoid form with high shoulders and tall everted neck ending in a rolled lip, the reddish brown body dense with granules of feldspar and fused with natural ash glaze streaming to the base on one side
17 3/8in. (44cm.) high

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Lot Essay

For another jar, see Louise Allison Cort, Shigaraki: Potter's Valley (Bangkok: Orchid Press, 2001), no. 76.

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