Ceramic chawan tea bowl in drum shape, green Raku ware, Kyoto, Japan
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Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900: Item # 1459672
Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900: Item # 1459672
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$700.00
Chawan tea bowl, or perhaps a soup bowl or a mukozuke. Fairly thin stoneware modeled in the shape of a drum with 8 nails (protrusions) along the upper edge that would hold the drum skin in place. Deep green glaze. Eight vertical lines engraved and filled in with gold.
A triangular shape is cut out of the foot by way of a potter’s mark. In the center of the bottom a round Raku seal impressed.
Raku ware, Kyoto, Japan, first half 19th century
H 3.75 x Diam at widest point 4.5 in.
Frittings all along the top edge, darkened to make them less noticeable, frittings on the drum knobs, gold dulled and worn
From a private collection of Japanese ceramic in New Jersey
