id:			380093
accession number:	2020.191
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.191
updated:		2023-08-24 01:38:23.943000

Large Jar, 1400s. Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573). Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Shigaraki ware); overall: 43.8 x 38.1 cm (17 1/4 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.191

title:				Large Jar
title in original language:	
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creation date:			1400s
creation date earliest:		1400
creation date latest:		1499
current location:		
creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
technique:	stoneware with natural ash glaze (Shigaraki ware)
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Ceramic
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catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 43.8 x 38.1 cm (17 1/4 x 15 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Box inscription (front): 「不明」壺
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235
	opening date:   2021-04-23T04:00:00
	<i>Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Ko-Shigaraki: jars from Shigaraki's medieval kilns </em>[Shigaraki: tsubonaka no ten= 信樂 : 壺中の天]. Miho Museum, Koka, Shiga, Japan (September 1-December 15, 1999).

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PROVENANCE

	(Yanagi Shigehiko, Kyoto, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley)
	date: ?–2006
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	Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2006–2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020–
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fun fact:


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wall 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.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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 <em>Taiyō</em>). [Large Jars, Small Jars. Enjoying Antiques, no. 26, <em>The Sun</em>, Supplement]. Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1999, 4–21.
	page number: 	pp. 6–7
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	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 (<em>Yūraku</em>) [Yu-raku], no. 73 (July 1999): 8–19.
	page number: 	p. 11, no. 4
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	Miho Museum. <em>Shigaraki: tsubonaka no ten </em>[信樂 : 壺中の天 = Ko-Shigaraki: jars from Shigaraki's medieval kilns]. Shiga-ken: Miho Museum, 1999.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 38, p. 45; Mentioned: cat. no. 38, pp. 184 (Japanese) and 238 (English)
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