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Triple Lugged Jar with Pine Sprout Design

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Triple Lugged Jar with Pine Sprout Design

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Place of production or style: Tamba ware
Number of components: 1
Format and materials: Pottery
Dimensions (in cm): H. 39.7, D. (rim) 16.0, D. (body) 39.0, D. (base) 19.5
Date of production: Northern and Southern Courts period 14th century

This Tamba-ware jar was produced near the city of Sasayama in Hyogo Prefecture. Its everted neck is short; the body, with its swelling shoulders, is in what is called the soroban-tama (abacus-bead) form. High fired, the clay has developed a reddish-brown color; natural glaze flowing down from the shoulders creates the jar's keshiki (landscape). Three lugs have been sprigged to the shoulders. Trees with three branches, and roots, have been lined engraved between the lugs. Some suggest that they refer to the custom of uprooting pine seedlings at New Year's, on the first Day of the Rat. The character tateru (to build) is inscribed, rotated ninety degrees, on the lower part of the body.

Notable Works

Triple Lugged Jar with Pine Sprout Design

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