Tea Bowl
1400-1500 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Stoneware tea bowl of distorted shape with yellowish green ash glaze. It is badly broken and the parts have been joined together with gold lacquer; there are also small sections of the rim of another bowl stuck to its underside. The likelihood is that the bowl was excavated from a kiln waste-heap.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Glazed stoneware with gold lacquer repairs |
| Brief description | Tea bowl, stoneware with yellowish green ash glaze; Japan, Seto/Mino, Muromachi period, 1400-1500 |
| Physical description | Stoneware tea bowl of distorted shape with yellowish green ash glaze. It is badly broken and the parts have been joined together with gold lacquer; there are also small sections of the rim of another bowl stuck to its underside. The likelihood is that the bowl was excavated from a kiln waste-heap. |
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| Gallery label | BOWL
Stoneware with yellowish green ash glaze
Seto ware
JAPANESE; e.1400-1500
175-1877
Teabowls of this kind were fired in stacks of up to five pieces. This piece shows the remains of the bowl that was fired beneath it. This, and the distorted shape, suggest that this bowl was excavated from a kiln waste heap and restored.(As at 2005) |
| Object history | Purchased from the Japanese Commissioners for the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876, accessioned in 1877. This acquisition information reflects that found in the Asia Department registers, as part of a 2022 provenance research project. |
| Association | |
| Bibliographic reference | Augustus Wollaston Franks and M. Shioda, Japanese Pottery. [London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1880. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks; 18.
Catalogue number 16 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 175-1877 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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