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Pottery: Koetsu (Imitation)
Hand-built tea bowl of globular form with irregular rim. A rough
red Raku ware painted in a salmon pink over a cream slip and decorated with a fine pine sapling and inscription in black (‘His longevity like a mountain , his ancestors all come from the East to celebrate his 83rd birthday’); this is possibly when the original owner visited the Sumiyoshi Shrine, and bought the tea bowl outside the shrine . The whole is finely covered in a cloudy white glaze which fills the uneven dips in the body. The inside is rough; the inner hollow was done by four scrapings. Raku spiral in the centre of the foot ring.
History note: Unknown before Frank Brangwyn RA
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 9.50 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1934-09-20) by Brangwyn, Frank
19th Century
Edo period (1615-1868) / Meiji period (1868-1912)
Circa
1800
-
Circa
1899
This tea bowl is an imitation of Koetsu
Decoration
composed of
painting
( black)
All Except Foot
composed of
pigment
( salmon pink)
Rim
Diameter 11.20 cm
Bowl
Diameter 12.90 cm
Foot
Diameter 5.20 cm
cloudy white
Glaze
cream
Slip
red Raku clay
Earthenware
Glazing (coating)
Slip dipping
Hand-built
Accession number: C.190-1934
Primary reference Number: 72833
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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