Tea bowl

Object Details

• Artist

  Morita Uruo Mitsunaga (d. 1914)

• Description

  Tea bowl with designs of hawk in pine tree and pair of Chinese scholars.

  Clay: buff pottery, darkened on surface by use.

  Glaze: clear, appearing buff over clay body, fine even crackle; ending evenly on base above foot.

  Decoration: comma-shape trimmed inside straight-sided footrim. In blue-gray underglaze cobalt line and wash; on one side, section of pine trunk with hawk on branch; on opposite side, pair of elderly Chinese scholars seated face-to-face; both motifs in style of the Kano school.

• Origin

  Kochi, Kochi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1910s, 1860s

• Name

  Morita, Uruo Mitsunaga

• Place

  Kochi, Japan, Kochi prefecture

• Topic

  Pine tree, Tea, Art, Odo ware, Scholar, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Hawk

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)