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Tea bowl in Oribe style
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Tea bowl in Oribe style

1800-1868 · Stoneware with iron pigment under clear glaze and with copper-green 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, 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.

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

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