"Mountain tea bowl" (waster recovered from abandoned kiln site)

Object Details

• Description

  Bowl with flat base, applied footrim, and everted walls.

  Gray stoneware, reddish on surface. On interior wall, accumulation of uneven natural ash glaze, pooling at edge of base, with trace of footrim of bowl placed above this one in a stack for firing. On outside wall, thin band of natural ash glaze; rest of wall was protected from glaze by the bowl beneath this one in the stack. Glaze adhering to the footrim, pooled from the wall of the bowl stacked below.

• Inscriptions

  Inscribed, in Japanese: Old Tokoname / Kamakura / yamazara.

  Inscribed, in Japanese: Old Tokoname / Kamakura / yamazara.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Origin

  Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Pamela W. Green

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1100s, 1200s

• Place

  Aichi prefecture, Japan

• Topic

  Kamakura period (1185 - 1333), Art, Stoneware, Sanage ware, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Tokoname ware, Seto ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)