A Large Stoneware Jar

SHIGARAKI WARE, NAMBOKUCHO-MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH-15TH CENTURY)

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A Large Stoneware Jar
Shigaraki Ware, Nambokucho-Muromachi period
(14th-15th century)
The large ovoid jar with high shoulders and an upright neck, the body light reddish-brown with several patches of dark brown and incised with a band of crosshatching, known as higaki for its resemblance to a type of latticework fence, which encircles the shoulders, and applied with patches of ash-glaze of yellowish hue around the neck and shoulders, numerous encrustations on the body
17½in. (44.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another jar in the Cleveland Museum of Art see Hayashiya Seizo, ed., Toji (Ceramics), vol. 9 of Zaigai Nihon no shiho (Selected Japanese art in Western collections) (Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbunsha, 1981), pl. 9.

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