Seto ware

Kiseto water jar, clay covered with glaze and iron-brown splashes and black lacquer cover, Momoyama or Edo period, 17th century
Stoneware tea caddy with wood-ash and iron glazes, Edo period, early 19th century
Example of Kiseto style glaze. Exhibited in Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum.

Seto ware (瀬戸焼, Seto-yaki) is a type of Japanese pottery, stoneware, and ceramics produced in and around the city of Seto in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.[1] The Japanese term for it, setomono, is also used as a generic term for all pottery.[2] Seto was the location of one of the Six Ancient Kilns of Japan.[3]

  1. ^ Wolf, Martin L. (1951). Dictionary of the Arts. New York: Philosophical Library. p. 633.
  2. ^ Munsterberg, Hugo (1964). The Ceramic Art of Japan: A Handbook for Collectors. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing. p. 633.
  3. ^ "Japanese Pottery". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 December 2012.