id:			380093
accession number:	2020.191
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.191
updated:		2025-02-15 12:46:43.764000

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
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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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measurements: Overall: 43.8 x 38.1 cm (17 1/4 x 15 in.)
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	inscription:	Box inscription (front): 「不明」壺
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Rinpa (琳派)
	opening date:   2021-04-23T04:00:00
	<i>Rinpa (琳派)</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

* {'description': "<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).", 'opening_date': '1999-09-01T00:00:00'}

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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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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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	"Exhibitions: Transformative Gift." <em>Art &amp; Antiques </em>XLV, no. 10 (November 2022): 48-53.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 52
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