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Vase in Oribe style, probably Seto ware
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. Wheel-thrown form distorted by vertical slashes made with a blade and by pinching from two opposite sides; base finished by hand. Feldspathic glaze, cream colored where thin, white where thick; splashes of copper-green ash glaze partially reduced to lavender and yellow-green; areas of crawling. Inside glazed; base glazed in concave center, unglazed around edge.
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineVase in Oribe style, probably Seto ware. 1800-1880. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.