The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Medium-brown hexagonal stoneware jar rounding into a spherical shape, with a thin band for a rim at the top. Fine scratches texture the surface, with light catching on a central facing side of the hexagon, the flanking visible sides cast in shadow.

Hexagonal Jar

1984

Morioka Hiroshi

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89)
carved stoneware (Bizen style)
Diameter: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.); Overall: 18 cm (7 1/16 in.)
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2001.69
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Morioka Hiroshi is based in Okayama, the center of Bizen-style ceramics.
  • ?–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
  • “Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2000-2001.” Archives of Asian Art 53 (2002): 111–125. Reproduced: Fig. 7, p. 113 www.jstor.org
  • Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).
  • {{cite web|title=Hexagonal Jar|url=false|author=Morioka Hiroshi|year=1984|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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