Storage Jar (1400s): Art, History and Details
Storage Jar at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1400s, Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Echizen ware). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Storage Jar (1400s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Located in present-day Fukui prefecture northeast of Kyoto, the Echizen kilns produced ceramics with purplish-red skin flecked with white feldspar characteristic of the local clay used in this piece. Around 1700, the warm hue of Echizen wares gained popularity in tea practice, particularly when the vessels exhibited the rugged surface evident here in combination with the dynamic glossy glaze drips.
Object facts
- Title: Storage Jar
- Date: 1400s
- Culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Echizen ware)
- Dimensions: Diameter: 47.5 cm (18 11/16 in.); Overall: 57.5 cm (22 5/8 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 2015.493
Collection credit
Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
Further reading listed by the museum
- Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019.
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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