Tea bowl in Black Oribe style with mark "Sobokai"

Object Details

• Description

  Oribe Revival tea bowl with impressed seal "Sobokai."

• Marks

  Impressed seal on bottom of foot: "Sobokai."

• Provenance

  Yatsuhashi Gallery, Boston, MA

  Purchased by donor in 1960's to early 1970's

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Yatsuhashi Gallery

  Sylvan Barnet (1926-2015)

• Origin

  Seto, Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1810s, 1840s

• Name

  Yatsuhashi, Harumichi, Barnet, Sylvan

• Place

  Aichi prefecture, Japan, Seto

• Topic

  Late Edo period (1716 - 1868), Art, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Oribe style ware, Seto ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)