Tea bowl in style of Kaga Koetsu, unknown Raku ware workshop

Object Details

• Artist

  Style of Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637) , by an unknown amateur potter

• Description

  Tea-bowl, cylindrical; low, retired foot.

  Clay: sonorous, gray-white. Raku type.

  Glaze: lustrous, soft dull red slip, under clear glaze that where thick appears brownish-green. Glaze wiped off footrim. Old red lacquer repairs to firing cracks.

• Label

  The tea bowl in Red Raku format named Kaga Koetsu is perhaps the most frequently copied tea bowl made by Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637). This bowl resembles Kaga Koetsu in form and sculpting but lacks the characteristic white areas at the rim and base. The workmanship suggest that the bowl was made by an amateur potter (probably also a practitioner of the tea ceremony) rather than a professional artist.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Art in the Age of Koetsu (June 6, 1998 to February 15, 1999)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Charles Lang Freer

• Type

  Vessel

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• Name

  Hon'ami, Koetsu

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan

• Topic

  Tea, Charles Lang Freer collection, Art, Lacquer repair, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Lacquer, Ceramics, Raku ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)