Tea bowl

Description

Tea bowl of white stoneware on a low foot, with a reddish brown glaze splashed with black, with an itokiri mark and an impressed Raku mark: Japan, 19th century

Museum reference

A.1951.424

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Tea bowl

Production information

Japan, East Asia

Date

19th century

Materials

Stoneware

Physical description

Heavy white stoneware, reddish brown glaze splashed with black

Exhibitions

• Looking East: The Lady Ivy Wu Gallery (29 Jul 2011 - 08 Jun 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Jane Wilkinson and Nick Pearce, Harmony & Contrast: A Journey through East Asian Art (National Museums of Scotland, 1996), p.48