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Japanese-made pottery
The title is Tsubo (壷).
This is a jar created by Mori Yasushi.
The flattened jar with the handle.
It was loaded into a climbing kiln, and then was fired up.
He made the shape by throwing on potter's wheel and curved the round design by the spatula.
At the part with cicle picture, he transformed it into being flat.
The fallen sesame pattern called "goma" is seen.
Height : 17.5 cm
Width : 15.8 cm
Length : 14.5 cm
It's been over fifty years since he started making Bizen-yaki. He thought up the idea of a twice baking method to bring out a changeable black color.