The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Spherical, grey-blue stoneware jar with a narrow rim at top, and a smooth, inset circle at the center. A red-brown color bulges from the bottom of the circle, bleeding into the lower half and winding in vein-like lines into the upper half.

Jar

mid-1900s–2001

Morioka Hiroshi

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89) to Heisei period (1989–2019)
stoneware with natural ash glaze (Bizen style)
Diameter: 24 cm (9 7/16 in.); Overall: 22.8 cm (9 in.)
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2001.66
Location: Not on view
  • ?–2001
    T. Dixon Long [1933–2022], San Francisco Bay area, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2001–
    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=Jar|url=false|author=Morioka Hiroshi|year=mid-1900s–2001|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2001.66