ID 1027126
Lot 5 | A LARGE STONEWARE JAR
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 40 000
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
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Muromachi period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Bottles, jars & flasks |
| Applied technique: | Pottery |
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| Medium: | Ceramic, Stoneware |
| Historical era: | Muromachi period |
| Place of origin: | Eastern Asia, Japan, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Bottles, jars & flasks |
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