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Tea ceremony water jar
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Tea ceremony water jar

1615-1630 · Stoneware with ash and iron glazes

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Buff clay; some bloating in bottom. Two strap handles with incised vertical lines and appliqued studs. Three stump feet. Designs of cloud collars on neck, chevrons on body, incised with broad-edged blade. Ash glaze, crackled, greenish where thick; applied in two coats on outside, one coat on inside, wiped off flange and base; irregular trickles of brown iron glaze from rim between handles; six round spur marks in glaze of recessed rim; three small spur marks in bottom.

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description
Credit lineTea ceremony water jar. 1615-1630. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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