Fresh Water Jar (Mizusashi) with Bamboo

2nd half 18th century (Edo period (1603-1868))

16.2 cm 18.3 cm 15.3 cm

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This Mizusashi (water jar) was made for use in the tea ceremony to hold fresh water. Japanese porcelain manufacture, which developed much later than that of China, flourished on the island of Kyushu in the last decades of the 17th century. The family-run Hirado kilns were one...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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