A Stoneware Food Container for Tea Ceremony (Mukozuke)

KAMEYA NO TANI WARE, E-KARATSU TYPE, EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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A Stoneware Food Container for Tea Ceremony (Mukozuke)
Kameya no tani ware, E-Karatsu type, Edo period (17th century)
Set on a ring foot and molded with a shallow well, the sides turned up and pinched into four corners and decorated in underglaze brown iron-oxide with a freely-painted design of grasses, the sides painted with simple Chinese-style scrolling grasses, the edge also glazed in brown iron-oxide showing reddish-brown where it has burned through the overglaze, covered in a milky feldspathic glaze with a slight crackle running thickly around the edges of the rim; foot and area around it unglazed; glaze pulls where the glaze ends
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) diameter
With wood box inscribed on the lid Kashi bachi (Dish for sweets)

Lot Essay

For similar examples of sets of five Karatsu dishes see Suematsu Ryosuke and Arakawa Masaaki, compilers, Idemitsu bijutsukan zohin zuroku: Nihon toji/Japanese ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection) (Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1990), pls. 221-225.

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