Jar

Description

Oil jar (abura-tsubo), stoneware with a brown glaze and blue namako overglaze inside and dabbed on the shoulders of the jar: Asia, Japan, Tōhoku, Iwate, Kuji, Kuji kiln, c. 19th century

Museum reference

V.2022.191.229

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Jar, Oil jar

Production information

Kuji, Kiln
Kuji-shi, Iwate-ken, Japan, East Asia

Date

19th century

Style / Culture

Edo period, Japanese
Meiji period, Japanese

Materials

Stoneware, Glaze

References

Tōhoku no Yakimono, by David Hale, with Foreword by Prof. Fujio Koyama, pub. Yuzan Kaku, Tōkyō, 1974 (in Japanese translation), Bl.&Wh. Plate No. 61, right

Credit

The Anne and David Hale Collection of Tōhoku Ceramics