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Tea-leaf storage jar with four lugs and "Sobokai" mark
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Tea-leaf storage jar with four lugs and "Sobokai" mark

1630-1750 · Stoneware with iron and ash glazes

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

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Fine-grained, medium gray clay, darkened on surface by use. Concentrically trimmed base, slightly concave. Four lugs on shoulder. Inscription, "Sobokai," incised on base. Iron glaze applied by ladle to inverted jar, creating swagged contour; ash glaze appled in thin band only to shoulder, running in irregular trails onto body and breaking, in places on shoulder, into yellow-brown patches with bluish edges. Inside unglazed.

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description
Credit lineTea-leaf storage jar with four lugs and "Sobokai" mark. 1630-1750. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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