Tea bowl with silk brocade design

Object Details

• Artist

  Shonsui Gorosuke 祥瑞五郎助

• Description

  Clay: hard, grayish.

  Glaze: luminous cream-white, crackled. Pink flush in interior.

  Decoration: in purplish-brown and green enamels, and gold, over glaze. Textile design.

• Marks

  Shonzui Gorosuke (祥瑞五郎助), in pentagonal frame.

• Label

  This bowl bears patterns of brocaded silk textiles used for formal court robes. Colored and gold enamels were a hallmark of Kyoto ceramics.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of Japan: Edo Aviary and Poetic License (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  Poetic License: Making Old Worlds New (February 2 to August 4, 2013)

  Tea in the Floating World (December 8, 2002 to May 26, 2003)

  Kyoto Ceramics (November 9, 1984 to April 25, 1985)

• Origin

  Gojozaka, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Shonsui, Gorosuke

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Gojozaka, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Clear glaze, Stoneware, Kyoto ware, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Enamel and enameling, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)