The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 12, 2025

Squat stoneware cylindrical jar that curves in at the upper edge to a central hole with no rim. Primarily a metallic grey and black speckled color, a red-brown glaze shows through mostly in the upper half. This upper half features wavy lines framing a red space into which jut geometric speckled grey and black sections, primarily in "L" shapes. Occasional red blobs float among the grey-black, mostly along the edges of the red.

Flattened Jar

mid- to late 1900s

Morino Hiroaki (Taimei)

(Japanese, b. 1934)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
stoneware with red glaze and metallic resist overglaze decoration
Diameter: 23.3 cm (9 3/16 in.); Overall: 28.7 cm (11 5/16 in.)
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2000.160
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The characters for ceramist Morino's first name, 泰明, can be read Hiroaki or Taimei. In daily life, the artist uses Hiroaki, but his style name is Taimei.
  • ?–2000
    T. Dixon Long [1933–2022], San Francisco Bay area, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2000–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).
  • {{cite web|title=Flattened Jar|url=false|author=Morino Hiroaki (Taimei)|year=mid- to late 1900s|access-date=12 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.160