Large Jar

Medium

Clay covered with a crackled glaze and decorated with polychrome enamels (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

Dimensions

H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); Diam. 12 in. (30.5 cm); Diam. of rim 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm); Diam. of base 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm)

Classification

Ceramics

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893

Accession Number

93.3.39