Kenzan-style Tea Bowl (chawan)
Location
Kyoto ware
Era
Edo period (1615-1868)
Title
Kenzan-style Tea Bowl (chawan)
Date
19th c.
Materials
Stoneware, painted decoration in underglaze white slip and polychrome enamel
Dimensions
7.9 cm (h.), 11.4 cm (diam.)
Credits
Adaline Van Horne Bequest, inv. 1944.Dp.40
Collection
Archeology and World Cultures
This tea bowl is decorated on the exterior with two groups of plum blossoms painted in white underglaze slip and in red and blue enamels over a transparent glaze. The bowl is signed “Kenzan” in bold seal characters near the foot rim. Ever since the death of the great Rimpa master in 1743, several generations of potters have adopted the name.
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