Storage jar, 16th century, Unknown Japanese, 18 × 13 3/4 × 13 5/8 in. ( × × cm), Shigaraki ware; stoneware with natural ash glaze, Japan, 16th century, This large Shigaraki jar is noted for the brown ash glaze that pools and drips unevenly across its rough surface, which is marked by particles of white feldspar. Potters in Shigaraki began making bowls, jars, mortars, and other vessels for utilitarian use around a millennium ago. The irregular properties of the local clay and unique firing processes lent Shigaraki pots and bowls a sense of rusticity and spontaneity.

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