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This is an unglazed stoneware bizen jar fired in a wood-burning kiln.<br /> It has a hard, smooth surface with decorative incisions near the top of the jar. The lower portion has effect of color gradation of reds and browns. The lid seems to dip into the jar, and has a know handle. The entire piece is not perfectly formed, but has an organic aesthetic.
Kaneshige Tôyô
Bizen ware water jar with lid (mizusashi)
1950 – 1963
Museum Purchase
1963/2.72A&B
Flared base with rounded food storage bowl on top. The base is cut with evenly spaced rectangular holes. The lid is incised with a repeating herringbone, or dotted design. The know on the lid is the shape of a Buddhist canopy, or chattra.<br /> <br /> This is a dark blue-gray, high-fired stoneware lidded stem cup. The lid is crowned by a pearl-shaped knob, while both the inner and outer surfaces of lid have traces related to the attachment of the knob to the lid. A v-shaped pattern of engraved dots, made using a sixtooth comb, surrounds the central knob. The cup&rsquo;s flange slopes inwards and has a sharp edge. The cup body has a horizontal gallery that holds the lid in place. The stem is perforated by rectangular openings, below which is a sharply protruding circular raised band. Traces of rotation and water smoothing are visible on the body and stem of the cup. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 59]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Pedestal Bowl with Cover
5th century
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.169A&B
A ceramic incense box in beige and reddish orange color. Shaped like a closed flower bud with smaller leaves covering it.
Harada Shūroku
Leaf Shaped Incense Burner
Gift of the Estate of Anne L. McGrew
2012/1.264A&B
Flaring base with spherical food storage bowl on top. The base is cut with evenly spaced rectangular holes. The lid is incised with a repeating design.<br /> <br /> This is a grayish white, high-fired stoneware lidded stem cup. The lid features a button-shaped knob at the center, around which a thin circle is inscribed. Triangular line designs are contained within the circle, which is surrounded by a row of semicircles with dots inside. The single-tiered, perforated, trumpetshaped pedestal has three rectangular openings. The pedestal flares widely outwards towards its bottom, which has a horizontally spreading edge. <p>[Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art (2017) p. 62]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Pedestal Bowl with Cover
6th century
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.189A&B
A sturdy, well-potted stoneware jar, with a spherical bottom, a sharply angled shoulder, and a wide slightly flaring mouth. The decoration consists of four bands of combed wavy lines: one at the waist, one at the shoulder, and two on the neck. The neck bands are bordered by three ridges, a double ridge topmost.<br /> <br /> This is a blue-gray, long-necked, high-fired stoneware jar with a round bottom. A horizontal ridge marks the boundary between the jar&rsquo;s round body and its neck. The steeply rising neck is divided into three sections by a set of two horizontal ridges on the upper part and a single horizontal ridge on the lower part. The central and lower parts of the neck have been decorated using a six-tooth comb to create a wave design. The upper body and the inner and outer surfaces of the neck retain traces of rough rotation and water smoothing. The upper part of the body slopes inwards at an angle sharp enough to form an edge. The surface above and below this edge are decorated with wave design
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Round-Bottomed Jar with Straight Mouth
5th century
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.172
Tall hourglass-shaped stand. Composed of three separate parts: two bowls and a connecting cylinder. The pieces are unified with appliqu&eacute;d bands encircling the cylinder horizontally as well as evenly spaced cut-out shapes of rectangles and triangles leading up the stand vertically in lines.<br /> <br /> This is a dark grayish brown, cylindrical, high-fired stoneware vessel stand. Parts of the bowl-shaped section have a yellowish brown tint. The walls of the vessel are relatively thick and have a coarse texture. The upper part of the neck has a flared profile, but its rim slopes inwards. The cylindrical neck is divided into three sections by thick double raised bands. In each section of the neck are rectangular perforations that are vertically aligned with those of the other sections. The bell-shaped pedestal is divided into three sections by thin raised bands and has perforations vertically aligned with those of the cylindrical neck. Only the perforations of the uppermost section of the pedestal are t
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Tall Ceremonial Stand for Jar
5th century
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.178
Spherical stoneware jar with an elongated neck and wide flaring mouth. Two indented bands stretch across the base of the neck and repeat halfway up the neck as it flares outward.<br /> <br /> This is a dark grayish brown, long-necked, high-fired stoneware jar with a wide mouth. Its neck splays diagonally upwards before spreading horizontally just below the mouth and flaring out upwards once again. Two wide, shallow lines forming a raised band mark the boundary where the neck and body meet. A similar type of raised band surrounds the upper-middle part of the neck. The body is widest at its middle part. Its outer surface shows faint traces of having been rendered with a paddled pattern, as well as water smoothing marks in a lateral direction. The base is round and contains clear traces of rotation and water smoothing. The inner surface of the neck shows irregular and rough traces of the supporting anvil (used during the paddling process) in a vertical direction, as well as rotation and water smoothing marks.
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Round-Bottomed Jar with Wide Flared Mouth
400 – 599
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.183
Unglazed gray stoneware flattened bottle with two lion-head lugs near teh upper corners, and two turtle shaped lugs on the bottom.
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Flattened Bottle with Lion-head and Turle Lugs
900 – 1099
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.210
Earthenware stirrup cup with sgraffito design and celadon glaze. A chrysanthemum blossom decorates the tapered base of the cup, and widens into a large middle register with four stylized chrysanthemum medallions. The cup curves back inward toward the rim of the cup, decorated with a fret pattern just below. <p>This is a conical stirrup cup designed to be inserted into a cup holder. It is a fine piece of celadon with the sudtle beauty of white inlaid decorations in match with the blue-gray body. Its entire outer wall is decorated with inlaid motifs of fret, chrysanthemums, scrolls and lotus petals.<br /> [<em>Korean Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art</em> (2014) p. 128]</p>
Korean (Korean (culture or style))
Stirrup cup with inlaid sgraffito chrysanthemum and scroll designs
13th century
Gift of Bruce and Inta Hasenkamp and Museum purchase made possible by Elder and Mrs. Sang-Yong Nam
2004/1.230
This is a tall, cylindrical vase, slightly bulged at the middle. There are multiple incised lines around the neck and the bottom. The middle part has several vertical incision marks. The bottom is flat. It has a brown body, unglazed, with grayish ash glaze marks.<br />
Kaneshige Tôyô
Bizen ware vase
1955 – 1965
Gift of the Marvin Felheim Collection
1967/2.7
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