Tea bowl with aubergines and cross-hatches

Details

• Title

  Tea bowl with aubergines and cross-hatches

• Associated place

  Asia › Japan › Honshū › Gifu prefecture › Mino province › Mino kiln-sites (place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1600

• Material and technique

  stoneware, with incised decoration, painting in iron brown pigment, dipped in white glaze, and dipped or painted in black glaze

• Material index

  processed material › ceramic › pottery › stoneware

• Technique index

  marked › incised;

  covered › coated › painted;

  glazed

• Object type

  container › vessel › bowl › drinking-bowl › tea-bowl

• Dimensions

  8 cm (height)
  14.2 cm max. (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by E. M. Scratton, 1991.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 37 | Japan 1600 - 1850

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA1991.158

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