Cylindrical Water Jar (Mizusashi)

Shuntai Japanese

ca. 1820

Not on view

Shuntai is a mark used by a potter who revived the Momoyama style of Oribe in the early nineteenth century.

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Title: Cylindrical Water Jar (Mizusashi)
Artist: Shuntai (Japanese, 1799–1878)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: ca. 1820
Culture: Japan
Medium: Stoneware with decoration painted under the glaze
Dimensions: H. 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm); Diam. 5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Object Number: 36.120.642a, b
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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