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EDO PERIOD, 18TH CENTURY
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An Iron Kettle for Tea, Chagama
Edo Period, 18th century
The squat iron vessel cast with a raised hailstone pattern on the curved shoulders above the inset lower body; with two loop handles and a bronze cover with pierced finial cast as a brocade ball set on a flat plate in the shape of a floret
6½in. (16.5cm.) high
With wood box with paper slip affixed to the surface of the lid inscribed Donin saku araregama (kettle with hailstone pattern made by Donin) and dated on the underside of the lid Kyoho rokunen jugatsu (Kyoho 6, tenth month [1720/10]) and with another paper label on the side of the box inscribed araregama Donin saku (kettle with hailstone pattern made by Donin)
Edo Period, 18th century
The squat iron vessel cast with a raised hailstone pattern on the curved shoulders above the inset lower body; with two loop handles and a bronze cover with pierced finial cast as a brocade ball set on a flat plate in the shape of a floret
6½in. (16.5cm.) high
With wood box with paper slip affixed to the surface of the lid inscribed Donin saku araregama (kettle with hailstone pattern made by Donin) and dated on the underside of the lid Kyoho rokunen jugatsu (Kyoho 6, tenth month [1720/10]) and with another paper label on the side of the box inscribed araregama Donin saku (kettle with hailstone pattern made by Donin)
Exhibited
On loan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1973.