VesselsJapanese18th century

Large Spherical Jar with Four Lug Handles

18th century

Classification

Vessels

Technique

Glazed

Medium

Ceramic

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Century

18th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

24.13 cm (9 1/2 in.)

Related Artworks

Vessels

Squarish, Cylindrical Teacup with Horizontal Ridges and with Decoration of Bush Clover (Hagi), Cart Wheels, Drying Nets, and Birds

Unknown Artist, 16th-17th century

Ceramic

16th-17th centuryJapanese

Vessels

Facsimile of Nautilus Goblet (c. 1700)

Bernhard Quippe, c. 1900

Metal and nautilus shell

20th centuryGerman

Vessels

Silver-Form Dish with Lobed Sides and Scalloped Rim

Unknown Artist, 11th-early 12th century

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

11th-12th centuryChinese

Vessels

Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blosson and Three Phoenixes in Flight

Unknown Artist, 13th-14th century

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

12th-13th centuryChinese