Tea jar

Medium

Clay; black glaze with two bands of crackled white glaze; (Awata ware)

Dimensions

H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm); Diam. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm); Diam. of rim 1 in. (2.5 cm); Diam. of base 1 1/8 in. (2.9 cm)

Classification

Ceramics

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929

Accession Number

29.100.666