A Stoneware Jar

BIZEN WARE, KAMAKURA PERIOD (14TH CENTURY)

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A Stoneware Jar
Bizen Ware, Kamakura period (14th century)
The jar with a wide mouth surmounting a tall neck ending in a rolled lip, the body reddish chocolate-brown with patches of lighter reddish-brown in the lower half, incised with two groups of three parallel lines below one group of three undulating lines, also covered around the shoulder with a natural ash-glaze showing olive green near the neck
16½in. (42.2cm.) high

Lot Essay

For another jar see Katsura Matasaburo, Bizen, vol. 10 of Nihon toji taikei (Compendium of Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1973), pl. 2, and Narazaki Shoichi, ed., Echizen, Suzu, Shigaraki, Bizen, Tamba, vol. 3 of Nihon no toji (Japanese ceramics) (Tokyo: Chuo Koronsha, 1974), pl. 198.

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