Karatsu tea bowl, kutsu-gata chawan
Japan, Karatsu kilns
Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600)
Thickly potted in rare ‘shoe-form’, with kawakujira decoration (underglaze iron black marks to the rim suggesting black whale skin), 7.5cm high, 14.75cm diameter. Together with a silk shifuku and old Japanese wooden box inscribed by Ryoji Kuroda (of Ginza Kuroda Toen gallery opened in 1935). Early and beautiful pewter lacquer repairs to the rim and a firing crack to one side
Catalogue 184.
Japan, Karatsu kilns
Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600)
Thickly potted in rare ‘shoe-form’, with kawakujira decoration (underglaze iron black marks to the rim suggesting black whale skin), 7.5cm high, 14.75cm diameter. Together with a silk shifuku and old Japanese wooden box inscribed by Ryoji Kuroda (of Ginza Kuroda Toen gallery opened in 1935). Early and beautiful pewter lacquer repairs to the rim and a firing crack to one side
Catalogue 184.
Japan, Karatsu kilns
Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600)
Thickly potted in rare ‘shoe-form’, with kawakujira decoration (underglaze iron black marks to the rim suggesting black whale skin), 7.5cm high, 14.75cm diameter. Together with a silk shifuku and old Japanese wooden box inscribed by Ryoji Kuroda (of Ginza Kuroda Toen gallery opened in 1935). Early and beautiful pewter lacquer repairs to the rim and a firing crack to one side
Catalogue 184.