squat tea container with short, upright neck; dark brown glaze with areas of tan and yellowish tinting; incised horizontal line; small ivory cover with small knob

Tea caddy, 18th-19th century

Unknown Japaneseexpand_more

Banko ware; glazed stoneware; ivory lidexpand_more

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more  2015.79.281a,b

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In the 1730s, a wealthy merchant and tea practitioner named Nunami Rōzan (1718–1777), in the town of Kuwana in Ise Province, began fashioning his own stoneware tea utensils inspired by the wares he saw coming from potters in Kyoto and farther afield. He stamped each of his works with one of two seals, one that read banko, meaning “eternal,” and another that read banko fueki, meaning “eternal, constant.” He had no students of his own, but, several generations later, other local potters in Kuwana rediscovered Nunami Rōzan’s work and began creating their own pottery in his style. Their creations, like this tea caddy, came to be called “Banko ware” after Nunami’s seals.

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Title
Tea caddy
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Accession Number
2015.79.281a,b
Catalogue Raisonne
Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 587
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squat tea container with short, upright neck; dark brown glaze with areas of tan and yellowish tinting; incised horizontal line; small ivory cover with small knob

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