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Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 4-3918a, no description available.

Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 9-12205, described as ceramic jar, cylindrical shape, flaring mouth

Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 5-6279, described as Jar; wide mouth; dark brown clay; fire cloud on one side; four handles with four snakes in relief between handles with heads over rim; other ornamentation in relief symmetrically repeated between handles; diameter: 27 cm; height: 23 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Jar, accession number 9-12655a,b, described as Food jar with lid; stoneware, pot is faceted with ten flat panels, round shoulder and base, narrow foot and lip, foot has particles and sand adhering, chip missing from foot, lid is round with beveled top, has inside flange that is unglazed, runny, rust brown ame-yu glaze, glaze is brown where thick yellow where thin, pot used for honey; Yi period (1392-1910) honey storage; Vessels with a dark brown glaze flecked with lighter brown spots and splashes were made in the eighteenth and nineteenth century for use as kitchen ware. They are widely admired in Japan, where they are called ame-yu or ‘ame-glazed’ -ame being a sweet-stuff resembling molasses often used medicinally; hence the Japanese description ame-gusuri or ‘ame-medicine’, which is also employed for this type of ware. Jar 2 15/16” (11.5 cm) diameter, 4” (10.3cm) high. Lid 3 1/16” (8 cm) diameter, 1” (2.5 cm) high.