Black Raku tea bowl with pine motif

Object Details

• Artist

  Raku Keinyu XI (1817-1902)

• Description

  Tea bowl of low cylindrical shape with thickly layered black Raku glaze and three sprigs of pine incised on front of vessel, artist's seal impressed on base of bowl within foot ring.

• Marks

  artist's seal impressed on base of bowl within foot ring

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea (December 9, 2023 - ongoing)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Japan

• Credit Line

  The Kinsey Chanoyu Collection, Gift of Gregory Kinsey

• Type

  Vessel

• On View

  Freer Gallery 20a: Knotted Clay: Raku Ceramics and Tea

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1920s, 1910s

• Name

  Raku, Keinyu

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan

• Topic

  Pine tree, Art, The Kinsey Chanoyu Collection, Japanese Art, Tea ceremony, Taisho era (1912 - 1926), Ceramics, Raku ware

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)

• On View

  Yes