Teabowl with Pinks
Medium
Stoneware with crackled glaze and overglaze color enamel and gold
Dimensions
diam. 11 cm · height: h. 7.5 cm
Classification
Ceramic
Department
Japanese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of James and Christine Heusinger
Accession Number
2022.184
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About this artwork
This teabowl, for use in chanoyu, is a good example of Yohei III’s mastery of the techniques involved in producing Kyoto ware. The painting of the pinks, with their blue centers, bright red petals, and green leaves, is carefully controlled with crisp gold borders throughout. There is crackling in the transparent glaze and obvious, thick dripping of the milky glaze over the outside of the mouth of the bowl. The pink spots would have appeared in the clay during firing, and the bottom of the inside...