[Jar] "The raw material for the porcelain body of this jar included china stone with enough iron to add a reddish yellow tint. . . . The iron in the clay and the glaze combined to produce a green glaze with an agreeable texture and soft color. The glaze appears darker where it has pooled in the grooves that I incised in the leather-hard form."

--Sagawa Iwao

Courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of the Japan Foundation.

Jar, 1991, by Sagawa Iwao (b. 1933), Japan, porcelain with green glaze

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