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Tea bowl in Decorated Shino style
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Tea bowl in Decorated Shino style

1800-1868 · Stoneware with iron pigment under feldspathic glaze

From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

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.

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description
Credit lineTea bowl in Decorated Shino style. 1800-1868. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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