Large bowl
Asami Ryûzô
Description
6. Asami Ryûzô
Japan, 1894–1987
Large bowl
Showa period (1926–1989)
circa 1960
Stoneware with iron tenmoku glaze
Museum purchase, 1963/2.79
(Turning Point exhibition, Spring 2010)
Subject Matter:
a teabowl used in tea ceremony.
Physical Description:
Stoneware teabowl with dark green glaze coating the inside and outer top three-quarters of the dently curving sides. The green glaze drips off the side of the bowl near the base, frozen in suspension. At the rim of the bowl the color of the stoneware shows through a thin layer of glaze.
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