The Burke Collection
Tea-leaf storage jar
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589-1

Catalogue information

Momoyama period, 16th century

Bizen (備前) ware; stoneware with natural ash glaze and straw fire marks around mouth

H. 30.7 cm (12 1/8 in.)

Donated to the Minneapolis Institute of Art by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 89
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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;
Avitabile 1990, no. 137.
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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See also

This artwork was published as catalogue entry 589 in Volume II of Art through a Lifetime.

Additional details

D589-1
D589-1

Mark

[on base] potter’s mark