Shigaraki ware storage jar / Shigaraki ware, Japan
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- Accession Number
- 1986/1.161
- Title
- Shigaraki ware storage jar
- Artist
- Shigaraki ware, Japan
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- Object Creation Date
- late 16th century - early 17th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Kinki (region)
- Shiga (prefecture)
- Shigaraki (city)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Kinki (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Shiga (prefecture)
- Creation Place 5
- Shigaraki (city)
- Dimensions
- 44.7 cm x 31 cm x 31 cm (17 5/8 in. x 12 3/16 in. x 12 3/16 in.)
- Century
- Late 16th-early 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- jar
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Secondary Object Type
- jar
- Physical Description
- A large storage jar with round shoulder and shorter neck. The body is rather unevenly potted, showing bumps in some parts. The surface texture is uneven with speckles of white particles. Dark green, natural ash glaze drips on one side of the jar from top of the neck to the lower middle of the body. The rim of the neck is partially chipped and cracked. It has no foot.
- Subject Matter
- The jar was probably made to transport and store tea leaves in response to growing popularity of the tea ceremony among merchants and warriors in the sixteenth century. Naturally glazed and imperfected, unpretentious appearance of Shigaraki wares were suited to the tea aesthetic of "wabi-sabi" (genteel frugality and rustiness), the ideal which rooted in Zen Buddhism.
- Primary Keywords
- jar, food-storage
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2848 x 3216
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 1986/1.161
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"Shigaraki ware storage jar; Shigaraki ware, Japan." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.161/1986_1_161_view1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
