Yatsushiro (ceramic production center) water pot (Mizusashi) (usual name), 1800. Dark brown sandstone, incised decor. Inlaid. Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris. The foot or base of the utensils of this type is reserved in cookie and reveals a dark red shard often picked with black. The base of the pots is generally smooth; However, that of this pot was turned by forming a spiral groove. A technique attested by the excavations carried out on the sites of the ovens of Yatsushiro (mm). Finely drawn peony motifs with white, with a strip of pearls above.

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