Red Raku ware teabowl with imprinted leaf designs / Raku Tan'nyû
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- Accession Number
- 1954/1.537
- Title
- Red Raku ware teabowl with imprinted leaf designs
- Artist
- Raku Tan'nyû
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1795 - 1854
- Medium and Support
- earthenware with red and gray glaze
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1820 - circa 1840
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Margaret Watson Parker
- Style/Group/Movement
- raku
- Dimensions
- 10 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm (3 15/16 in. x 4 3/4 in. x 4 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- tea bowl
- Physical Description
- This rustic, earth tone ceramic tea bowl has a rough, natural feeling texture. Impressed into the outer sides of the tea bowl are the imprints of pine needles.
- Subject Matter
- Sen no Rikyû (1522–1591), tea master to Japan’s most powerful warlords in the late sixteenth century, championed the use of humble materials in the tea ceremony. Instead of expensive imported Chinese celadon or bronze flower vases, for example, he carved his own from bamboo in his own garden. Rikyû encouraged the Kyoto potter Chôjirô (1515–1592) to develop a new type of tea bowl, known as raku ware, formed by hand and fired in a simple, pit-like chamber. Chôjirô’s distinctive, thick-walled tea bowls set the standard for works by later generations of the Raku family, such as this tea bowl.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- containers by function or context
- containers for serving and consuming food
- culinary containers
- descriptors
- drinking vessels
- food
- materials
- materials by function
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- vessels
- vessels for serving and consuming food
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1011 x 857
- File Size
- 58 KB
- Record
- 1954/1.537
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"Red Raku ware teabowl with imprinted leaf designs; Raku Tan'nyû." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1954-sl-1.537/1954_1.537.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024.