Tea bowl in Oribe style
National Museum of Asian Art

Tea bowl in Oribe style

1832-1868

Stoneware with iron pigment under colorless ash glaze; copper-green tinted ash glaze and feldspathic glaze
National Museum of Asian Art
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of Asian Art

Buff clay. Underglaze iron painted decoration of "flaming jewels" and bundle of straw; touches of iron around rim. Kiln mark impressed on base inside foot rim. Ash glaze, ending irregularly above unglazed base, partially covered with glassy white feldspathic glaze; large patch of copper-tinted green ash glaze.

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