Object type: Tea jar
Department: Asian Art
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist: Nonomura Ninsei
Artist bio: Japanese, active ca. 1646–94
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Japanese
Date: 1700
Medium: Porcelaneous ware covered with a transparent crackled glaze and a mottled overglaze border (Kyoto ware)
Dimensions: H. 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Diam. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893
Accession year: 1893