16th century
Height 15.7cm, Bowl diameter 10.5cm, Body diameter 17.0cm, Bottom diameter 13.0cm
Tamba Antique Pottery Museum
This flat-rimmed small jar with a short curved mouth is probably the ancestor of the “ku” shaped mouth rimmed small jars. One end of the rim is held down to form a bird’s-beak shaped mouth. The exterior is made of rolled-up clay, and the upper half of the surface is covered with horizontal nade and the lower half with vertical brushstrokes. There is a thin 箟描 kiln mark on the shoulder. It is well fired and has a smooth brownish-brown color. There is a sticking of the same shape with heavy firing on the underside of the bottom.
