A Massive Stoneware Jar Tokoname Ware, Heian Period (12th Century) Ovoid, impressed around the perimeter of the shoulder, mid-body and lower-body in two places with cross-hatched lines and incised with a line at the mouth, decorated with a natural wood-ash glaze flowing from the mouth to the foot in glossy, densely crackled, olive and brown-colored vertical streams like a series of thick ribbons, many ending well above the foot in thick drops which end irregularly, two of the streams also milky-blue resulting from natural rice-straw glaze; numerous encrustations on half of the mouth and shoulders on one side of the jar 213/8in. (54.5cm.) high; 193/8in. (49cm.) diameter
A Massive Stoneware Jar Tokoname Ware, Heian Period (12th Century) Ovoid, impressed around the perimeter of the shoulder, mid-body and lower-body in two places with cross-hatched lines and incised with a line at the mouth, decorated with a natural wood-ash glaze flowing from the mouth to the foot in glossy, densely crackled, olive and brown-colored vertical streams like a series of thick ribbons, many ending well above the foot in thick drops which end irregularly, two of the streams also milky-blue resulting from natural rice-straw glaze; numerous encrustations on half of the mouth and shoulders on one side of the jar 213/8in. (54.5cm.) high; 193/8in. (49cm.) diameter
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