Medium: Stoneware with wood ash glaze
Geograhical Locations:
Dates:17th–18th century
Dimensions: Height: 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm) Maximum Diameter: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm) Other (Diameter at Mouth): 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) diameter at foot: 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
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Accession Number: 74.111
Image: 74.111_bw.jpg,
Catalogue Description:
Tamba Ware Tea storage jar.
Inverted-drop-shaped jar with low neck and everted rim. Four ornamental lugs (small loop handles) high on shoulder near neck: three of which collapsed in firing and filled with glaze. Two incised grooved at base of neck. Olive-green wood-ash glaze running in carmel-colored long vertical drips from neck to near foot. Lower quarter unglazed. Grey stoneware body burnt reddish-brown where exposed to fire. Flat bottom.
Condition as received: Good. Fourth loop handle (see above) broken off and missing. No accessories received.