Ewer for hot water with wisteria, late 16th - early 17th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Black lacquer with traces of red lacquer and silver and gold maki-eexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.384a,b
Not on Viewexpand_more
In the late 16th century, the nobility began to add elegant hot-water ewers like this to their tableware. Later, such a ewer might have been used for the light meals that precedes chanoyu, the ceremonial preparation of powdered green tea.
On the hardened black lacquer ground, wisteria was painted with red lacquer and before that became hard, silver and gold powders were dusted over the drawings. The powders blended, producing a subtle tonal contrast.
Details
- Title
- Ewer for hot water with wisteria
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.384a,b
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 745
- Curator Approved
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