Tea Bowl
1590-1630 (made)
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The tea bowl is both slightly underfired and has been repaired with a piece of ceramic taken from another tea bowl. This suggests that it was originally a kiln waster that was subsequently excavated and repaired.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Stoneware, glazed |
Brief description | Tea bowl, stoneware with semi-opaque whitish glaze; Japan, Karatsu ware, Momoyama/Edo period, 1590-1630 |
Physical description | Tea bowl, stoneware with semi-opaque whitish glaze. A broken section of the mouth has been repaired with a piece of ceramic from another tea bowl. |
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Gallery label | TEA BOWL
Stoneware with semi-opaque whitish glaze
Karatsu ware
JAPANESE; c.1590-1630
165-1877
This bowl is underfired and was probably excavated from a kiln site. It has been restored with a piece from another bowl.(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. |
Production | According to Ishizaki Yasuyuki and Tokudome Daisuke, curators, Hagi Uragami Museum, who visited the V&A on 28 January 2010, the shape of this tea bowl is more reminiscent of the 18th century than anything earlier. This view needs corroboration, however. |
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Summary | The tea bowl is both slightly underfired and has been repaired with a piece of ceramic taken from another tea bowl. This suggests that it was originally a kiln waster that was subsequently excavated and repaired. |
Bibliographic reference | Augustus Wollaston Franks and M. Shioda, Japanese Pottery. [London]: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1880. South Kensington Museum Art Handbooks; 18.
Catalogue number 6 |
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Accession number | 165-1877 |
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Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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