Stoneware storage jar with ash glaze, Nanban ware, Japan
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1837 VR: Item # 1431925
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1837 VR: Item # 1431925
Please refer to our stock # 10120 when inquiring.
$1,000.00
Sturdy storage jar for tea leaves or other goods with horizontally ribbed surface, sloping shoulder with very short neck. Coarse but dense clay with small inclusions. Outside middle brown with cream-colored and yellow natural ash glaze. Mingei.
Japan, 18th/19th century.
Japan, 18th/19th century.
Height 7.5 inches, width 6 inches at the neck. Ash glaze partially rubbed off at upper edge and at the body commensurate with holding and using, otherwise very good condition.
