A LARGE STONEWARE JAR

Lot 5
19.09.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 30 000
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ID 1027126
Lot 5 | A LARGE STONEWARE JAR
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$ 30 000 – 40 000
A LARGE STONEWARE JAR

MUROMACHI PERIOD (15TH CENTURY), SHIGARAKI WARE

Of ovoid form with high shoulders and tall everted neck ending in a rolled lip, the reddish brown body dense with granules of feldspar and fused with natural brownish-green ash glaze streaming to the base on one side, the base with a hiragana ku-looking mark

18 ½ in. (47 cm.) high





Provenance

Shimojo Art Co. Ltd., Tokyo

Marshall Field V (b. 1941), aquired from above, March 2004

Thence by gift to the present owner



Literature

Miho Museum ed. Ko-shigaraki: jars from Shigaraki's Medieval Kilns (Otsu City: Miho Museum, 1999). No. 146, p 122.

Miho Museum ed. Shigaraki kotsubo taisei (Tokyo: Shogakkan, 1999). Plate 5.



Exhibited

'Ko-shigaraki: Jar from Shigaraki's Medieval Kilns'. Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan. 1 September-15 December 1999
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