CC0 · no rights reserved
Tea-leaf storage jar with four lugs and "Sobokai" mark
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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 descriptionSubjects
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.