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Agano ware tea bowl
1600-1650

Unidentified, Japanese,
Momoyama or Edo period

Stoneware with rice-straw ash glaze
H: 9.7 W: 10.0 D: 10.0 cm
Japan

Gift of Charles Lang Freer F1899.57
 
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Korean potters founded the Agano kilns in Japan and prodced tea bowls like this one, whose rice-straw ash glaze reflects a utilitarian pottery tradition of northern Korea.


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