Tea bowl in Decorated Shino style
National Museum of Asian Art

Tea bowl in Decorated Shino style

1800-1868

Stoneware with iron pigment under feldspathic glaze
National Museum of Asian Art
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of Asian Art

Buff clay, darkened on surface by use. On lower wall, underglaze iron painted decoration of two clusters of schematized grass motifs, partially obscured by glaze. Feldspathic glaze of irregular thickness; stained brown in crackles. Base and foot unglazed.

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