Tea bowl
Label Text
This tea bowl, purchased in 1904 from Yamanaka and Company in New York, is made from fine-grained, buff clay with a pale greenish glaze. Its patina of brown stain on its bottom and lower sides—the result of its use in the tea ceremony—gives it a chromatic complexity that would have appealed to Freer, who displayed it with similar bowls on the mantel of the Peacock Room.
Object Name
Tea bowl (hirajawan)
Ware
Seto ware
Dated
late 15th-early 16th century
Period
Muromachi period
Medium
Stoneware with ash glaze
Dimensions
HxWxD: 5.8 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm
Country
Japan
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Iteration
2
Shelf Number
33
Wall
North
Title
Tea bowl
Object Number
F1904.327
Freer Source
Yamanaka and Co.
Freer Source City
New York
Freer Source State
New York
Freer Source Country
United States
Image
http://141.217.97.109/plugins/Dropbox/files/peacock-jpg/JPEG/F1904.327.jpg
Collection
Citation
"Tea bowl," in The Peacock Room, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Accession No. F1904.327, Item #3113, http://www.peacockroom.wayne.edu/items/show/3113 (accessed April 19, 2024).
