Raku Style Gray Tea Bowl / Sen Sôshu X
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1963/2.71
- Title
- Raku Style Gray Tea Bowl
- Artist
- Sen Sôshu X
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1913 - 1999
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with nezumi-iro (mouse-gray) glaze
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1960
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Dimensions
- 12.07 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm (4 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in.)
- Century
- Mid-20th century
- Physical Description
- Deep, thick-walled gray teabowl with intentionally unever lip and body texture that brings out a range of gray tones in the glaze.
- Subject Matter
- This unusually deep bowl in a warm gray glaze is said to be by Sen Sôshu X, the tenth-generation head of the Mushanokôji School of Tea. In evaluating a teabowl from a tea master, one looks not for slick professional skill, but for traces of the maker’s character. The generous, rounded shape of this teabowl seems to reflect an open, magnanimous personality.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- drinking vessels
- food
- materials
- materials by function
- objects
- objects we use
- vessels for serving and consuming food
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1336 x 2944
- File Size
- 523 KB
- Record
- 1963/2.71
- Link to this Item
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"Raku Style Gray Tea Bowl; Sen Sôshu X." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1963-sl-2.71/1963_2.71.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.