Red Raku ware shallow tea bowl / Artist Unknown, Japan
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1954/1.536
- Title
- Red Raku ware shallow tea bowl
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Japan
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with red glaze
- Object Creation Date
- 19th 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
- 6.4 cm x 14 cm (2 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 19th century?
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- tea bowl
- Physical Description
- This squat bowl is not smooth but has subtle irregularities in texture and shape, intentionally highlighted by the brilliant red glaze.
- Subject Matter
- Since the late sixteenth century, red has competed with black as a favored color for teabowls. Red bowls come in an astonishingly wide range of colors, from a rusty orange to a pale pink. They are made with a clear glaze over red slip (thin, watery clay). Although this bowl bears a seal reading “raku,” here it probably indicates the style rather than the maker of the bowl. Similarities to pottery made in western Japan suggest that this bowl may come from a workshop in the Hagi or Karatsu area. The bowl demonstrates the wide appeal of the Raku technique to tea practitioners of late Edo-period Japan.
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- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- early western world
- near eastern
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- persian
- persian pottery styles
- persian styles
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1305 x 877
- File Size
- 102 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.536
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"Red Raku ware shallow tea bowl; Artist Unknown, Japan." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.536/1954_1.536.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.