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Ash Glazed Four-Eared Pot with Comb Pattern (Seto Ware)

UnknownKamakura period

Saitama Prefectual Museum of History and Folklore

Saitama Prefectual Museum of History and Folklore
Saitama City, Japan

Seto ware is pottery being produced around Aichi Prefecture, Seto City. The operation initial, the potters built a lot of products that mimic the Chinese porcelain. In the Muromachi period, they created many daily potterys. In the Momoyama period, the production of tea, such as yellow-Seto black-Seto Sino Oribe was characterized. Pots that have four projections on shoulder "Shijiko" were made a large number over the Muromachi era from the Kamakura period. This pot is made in neatly with a thin body and a wide mouth. Dark green and yellow of ash glaze have given depth to its appearance.

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