Tea bowl
Object Details
- 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.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Feathered Ink (August 27, 2022 to February 20, 2023)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1868-1912
- Period
- Meiji era
- Accession Number
- F1989.67
- Artist
- Morita Uruo Mitsunaga (died 1914)
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Stoneware with cobalt decoration under clear glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 7.3 x 11.3 x 11.3 cm (2 7/8 x 4 7/16 x 4 7/16 in)
- Style
- Odo ware
- Origin
- Kochi, Kochi prefecture, Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- ceramic
- pine tree
- Odo ware
- Meiji era (1868 - 1912)
- tea
- hawk
- scholar
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Record ID
- fsg_F1989.67
