Heisei period, dated 1999
H. 32 x Diam. 33.1 cm (12 5/8 x 13 1/16 in.)
Collection of the artist, Kimura Moriyasu, 1999-2000
Light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip under translucent light bluish green glaze
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19th-20th centuryJapaneseJun-type ware: gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze, the unglazed areas dressed with brown slip
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