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Tokoname ware storage jar
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Tokoname ware storage jar

17th century · Stoneware with natural ash glaze

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

About this work

Dark gray clay, lustrous dark brown on surface. Large cross-shaped potter's mark incised on body. Natural deposits of ash glaze on shoulder, including large patch of opaque white rice-straw ash, partially flaked off.

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description
Credit lineTokoname ware storage jar. 17th century. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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