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Tea bowl in Oribe style

1832-1868 · Stoneware with iron pigment under colorless ash glaze; copper-green tinted ash glaze and feldspathic glaze

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

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Buff clay. Underglaze iron painted decoration of "flaming jewels" and bundle of straw; touches of iron around rim. Kiln mark impressed on base inside foot rim. Ash glaze, ending irregularly above unglazed base, partially covered with glassy white feldspathic glaze; large patch of copper-tinted green ash glaze.

National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own description

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Credit lineTea bowl in Oribe style. 1832-1868. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Gift of Charles Lang Freer. CC0.

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