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Large Jar

Large Jar

1400s
Location: not on view

Description

The orange color of this jar comes from iron in the clay. Natural ash glaze settled on the vessel during firing. Originally intended for grain storage, rustic containers like this one were also prized by tea enthusiasts, who appreciated the uncalculated beauty of the glaze and the asymmetry of these humble objects. They used them to store tea leaves.
  • ?–2006
    (Yanagi Shigehiko, Kyoto, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley)
    2006–2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2020–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Tsujimura Shirō. "壺中の天 信楽壺名品に見る" (Tsubonaka no ten Shigaraki tsubo meihin ni miru) [Heaven in a Jar, Looking at Masterworks of Shigaraki Jars]. 大壺小壺骨董を楽しむ 26別冊太陽 (Ōtsubo kotsubo, kottō wo tanoshimu 26. Besattsu Taiyō). [Large Jars, Small Jars. Enjoying Antiques, no. 26, The Sun, Supplement]. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1999, 4–21. pp. 6–7
    Yūraku. 特集 古信楽 M I H O M U S E U M 秋季特別展「信楽−壺の天」より(Tokushū ko-Shigaraki MIHO MUSEUM shūki tokubetsuten, “Shigaraki—Tsubonaka no ten” yori) [From the Miho Museum’s Autumn Special Exhibition, “Shigaraki—Heaven in a Jar”]. 遊楽 (Yūraku) [Yu-raku], no. 73 (July 1999): 8–19. p. 11, no. 4
    Miho Museum. Shigaraki: tsubonaka no ten [信樂 : 壺中の天 = Ko-Shigaraki: jars from Shigaraki's medieval kilns]. Shiga-ken: Miho Museum, 1999. Reproduced: cat. no. 38, p. 45; Mentioned: cat. no. 38, pp. 184 (Japanese) and 238 (English)
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
    Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).
    Ko-Shigaraki: jars from Shigaraki's medieval kilns [Shigaraki: tsubonaka no ten= 信樂 : 壺中の天]. Miho Museum, Koka, Shiga, Japan (September 1-December 15, 1999).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.191