絵志野秋草文額皿|Molded Dish with Autumn Grasses

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ca. 1600–15 · Stoneware with underglaze iron decoration (Mino ware, Shino style) · Asian Art

Iron oxide was painted directly onto the white stoneware body. The milky-white quality of the glaze is a result of its high feldspathic content and of the firing temperatures achieved in an ogama kiln.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1600–15

Medium

Stoneware with underglaze iron decoration (Mino ware, Shino style)

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975