Tea Bowl, ido chawan type / Artist Unknown, Japan
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.539
- Title
- Tea Bowl, ido chawan type
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with clear glaze
- Object Creation Date
- 17th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Dimensions
- 8.9 cm x 13.3 cm x 13.3 cm (3 1/2 in. x 5 1/4 in. x 5 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- tea bowl
- Physical Description
- This rustic looking bowl has a circular base from which the rounded shape of the bowl extends. The clear glaze reveals the brown and black tones of the materials.
- Subject Matter
- During the rise of wabi aesthetics in Momoyama period (1583-1615), Japanese tea masters discovered the rustic earthenware rice bowls that were in widespread use among Korean peasant farmers. These simple bowls fit perfectly the wabi aesthetic taste for rusticity and simplicity. When many Japanese warlords, who were fervent tea practitioners themselves, went to Korea with the invasion attempts of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) in the 1590s, many ido chawan or “well-side tea bowls” were carried home and treasured as family heirlooms. Korean potters were also relocated to Japan as part of the spoils of war, and their descendants at the Hagi clan kilns in western Japan continued to make a ware that recalls the ido type.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- vessels
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 649 x 465
- File Size
- 20 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.539
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