Tea bowl, 17th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Ko-Satsuma ware; stoneware with slip and glaze decorexpand_more
Gift of the Friends of the Instituteexpand_more 2001.132
Not on Viewexpand_more
Korean potters first founded the Satsuma kilns on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu in the late 1500s. Catering to the tastes of tea masters of the time, potters in Satsuma produced a variety of tea wares, most notably tea bowls and caddies. This bowl was decorated with thick irregular swathes of black and white clay slip and green glaze. Its somber tones and irregular shape accord well with the wabi (imperfect or rustic) aesthetic championed by Japan’s most renowned tea master, Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591).
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- Title
- Tea bowl
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2001.132
- Curator Approved
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