A Shigaraki storage jar


Kamakura period (1185-1333), early 14th centuryOf broad baluster form, with slightly everted short neck, covered with a natural ash glaze of pale brown tints; with a wooden storage box inscribed on the cover Ko-Shigaraki tsubo (Old Shigaraki jar) and inside the cover, Kamakura jidai no saku (made in the Kamakura period), attested and signed with two seals by an art historian Katsura Matasaburo (1901-1986). 37cm (14½in) high. (2).