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Title
Shigaraki-style Flower Vase
Artist
June Otis
Accession Number
TC2006.2.1
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Large Jar
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
This large jar is ovular in shape, with four lines carved across its horizontal axis periodically. The jar shape turns inward from the third line from the bottom. where the fourth line serves as the base of the neck of the jar opening. The natural ash glaze is not applied evenly, but looks as ip it dripped down the sides of the jar in some areas.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.212
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Shigaraki Ware Flower Vase
Artist
Takahashi Rakusai III
Physical Description
The vase uses Shigaraki clay and the wood-firing process. The deformities and imperfections are intentional, and in Iga style. It has a lopsided lip edge at the top, with a deep indentation circling the vase just below it. The texture of this piece is splotchy and ridged, and the colors are earth tones, ranging from tans to dark, forest greens.
Artist Life Dates
1898-1976
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
1960-1963
Accession Number
1963/2.77
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Large Jar
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
This large jar is wider in the top portion, narrowing towards the base. It has a short neck that flares outwards. The natural glaze creates a range of browns and grays.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Century
21st century
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.213
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Shigaraki ware plate
Artist
Takahashi Rakusai III
Physical Description
A rectangular shaped plate with eight circular patterns. The rim is slightly flared out to create the concave shape. The top surface is unglazed, scorched to an intense red. The bottom does not have foot. In the kiln, the thick clay slabs were stacked close together so that the floating ash landed on the edge of the plate facing the flame. The circular patterns are areas that were protected from the flame by cylinder clay spacers.
Artist Life Dates
1898-1976
Century
Mid-20th century
Object Creation Date
circa 1960
Accession Number
1963/2.76
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Shigaraki ware storage jar
Artist
Shigaraki ware, Japan
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.
Century
Late 16th-early 17th century
Object Creation Date
late 16th century - early 17th century
Accession Number
1986/1.161
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Jar
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
This cylindircal jar has a circular lid with a small handle. The natural ash glaze creates a mix of green, black, gray, and reddish hues.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.214
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Kaze (Wind)
Artist
Kohyama Yasuhisa
Physical Description
A standing vessel with four sides, two of them meeting to a sharp point on the one side. The bottom is square in shape and the upper portion of the vessel curve up.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Accession Number
2012/1.256
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Tea Bowl
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
Tea bowl with natural ash glaze, which creates gray, black, white, and orage tones on the piece, speckled with black.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.215
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Cup with small handle
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
It has a flat base, globular body and straight neck with an everted rim. The color is dark grayish-blue.
Object Creation Date
circa 8th century
Accession Number
1987/1.310
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Incense Container in the Shape of a Ginko Leaf
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
This incense burner is composed of two equal halves. It opens to be used for incense storage, and takes the shape of a ginko leaf. The glaze gives the piece a red color.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.216
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Round-bottomed jar with cover, fused to low ceremonial stand
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
This grayish-blue stoneware jar has a globular body, round base and straight elongated neck. A little wide single ridges encircle the middle of the neck, dividing it into three sections, each engraved with a wave pattern. The base has two ridges encircled on the below part and triangular holes.
Century
5th-6th century
Object Creation Date
5th century - early 6th century
Accession Number
2004/1.167A&B
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Incense Container in the Shape of a Raccoon Dog
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
Incense containter in the shape of a raccoon dog (tanuki). The animal is sitting upright, and the opening of the container is horizontal along a split at its belly button. The incense container is colored white, grayish blue, and reddish orange, with the last color mostly on the stomach of the figure.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.217
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Pedestal Cup or bowl with handle, on cut-out pedestal foot
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
It has deep cylindrical bowl supported by a little flared pedestal foot. Five raised band lines encircle the middle of the bowl. A single handle is attached to the body of the bowl. The foot is separated into two parts and has a lot of rectangular holes located in altering position. There is no design on the surface of the bowl and foot.
Century
late 5th-early 6th century
Object Creation Date
late 5th century - early 6th century
Accession Number
2004/1.180
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Incense Container in the Shape of a Plum Flower
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
Incense container in the shape of a plum blossom. The container consists of two halves opening horizontally, with the top of the container being very textured with a pattern of ridges. The container is bi-colored, with a whitish gray and reddish orange coloring.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.218
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Maebyeong (Wine Storage Bottle)
Artist
Artist Unknown, Korea
Physical Description
This Maebyeong is wide at the shoulder and gradually narrow down to the base. The neck is a little long and body is high.
Century
11th century
Object Creation Date
11th century
Accession Number
2004/1.211
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Incense Container in the Shape of a Flower
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
Flower shaped incense container consisting of two halves, which open horizontally. The top of the container has a subtle flower pattern that compliments the shape of the container and appears to have been stamped on the top. The color is a dark red on the very top of the container, with the color transitioning to a lighter reddish orange for the rest of the container.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.219
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Box with Lid
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
This ovular box, although flat on the bottom, has a lid decorated with curved ridges and protrusions that arch across the surface. The entire exterior is speckled with tiny craters, breaking up the illusion of a perfectly smooth surface. The ash glaze decorates the lidded box with an earthy brown color. The glaz pools in the valleys of the lid and small craters throughout, creating areas of darker hue. The meeting of the lid and box body is not a straight line, but rugged.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.210
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Incense Container in the Shape of a Flower
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
Flower shaped incesnse container consisting of two halves, which open horizontally, and fit together very precisely. Decorated with ash glaze, which gives the pottery a deep red color, deeper on the top and slightly lighter on rest of the container, with black as an accent color primarily on two sides of the container in a line going from the top of the piece to the bottom. The top of the container is very dramatically textured is a symetrical series of ridges which create the petals and shape of the flower.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.220
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Vase
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
The exterior of this three-sided triangular based vase is decorated with lines that curve together from one edge of the vase to the next. The ash glaze creates a greenish brown color, which pools and creates darker tones in some areas. The edges are not straight, but rough and bumpy.
Artist Life Dates
born 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.211
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Large Bowl (raibachi)
Artist
Okuda Eizan
Physical Description
Large bowl with wide and asymmetrical rim and natural ash glaze. The bowl appears to be orange on the outside, and multi-colored on the inside.
Artist Life Dates
born 1944
Object Creation Date
2005
Accession Number
2010/1.209
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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Title
Vase
Artist
Kôyama Kiyoko
Physical Description
This rectangular vase is decorated in one corber with a wheel or foral design carved into the clay. The opening edges of the vase are not straight, but asymmetrical. The natural ash glaze decorates the vase with varyig shades of gray.
Artist Life Dates
b. 1936
Object Creation Date
circa 2000
Accession Number
2010/1.204
Medium and Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze
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