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Fresh-Water Jar (Mizusashi)

17th century

Stoneware with lacquer top

18 × 10 in. (45.7 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S
1983.109
Geography: 
Japan
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
Japanese
Period: 
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: 
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance: 

Molly Bareiss (1920–2006), and Walter Bareiss (1919–2007), Greenwich, Conn.; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1983

Bibliography: 

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 303, ill.

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