Tea bowl in Oribe style
National Museum of Asian Art

Tea bowl in Oribe style

1800-1868

Stoneware with iron pigment under clear glaze and with copper-green glaze
National Museum of Asian Art
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of Asian Art

Buff clay, stained beneath glaze. On outside, underglaze iron painted decoration (which appears gray) of plovers in a "fishnet" lattice. Clear glaze, slightly underfired, crackled, partially wiped off base; narrow panel of copper-green ash glaze on outside, overlapping rim.

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