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MUROMACHI PERIOD (14TH-15TH CENTURY)
Details
A Large Negoro Ewer
Muromachi Period (14th-15th Century)
Of turned and assembled wood, with flat base and slightly everted sides with two circumferential bands above and below the spout, the top rising slightly towards an upturned rim, the lid with a central knop, the up-and-over handle with turned-in corners, three simple bracket feet, the red lacquer on the top much worn revealing the black lacquer beneath, the central band of the side with clear lacquer revealing the wood beneath, the underside also red-lacquered, indistinctly signed with black characters To . . . [East . . .]
Diam. 9 15/16in. (25.2cm.); 14 3/16in. (36.0cm.) high
Muromachi Period (14th-15th Century)
Of turned and assembled wood, with flat base and slightly everted sides with two circumferential bands above and below the spout, the top rising slightly towards an upturned rim, the lid with a central knop, the up-and-over handle with turned-in corners, three simple bracket feet, the red lacquer on the top much worn revealing the black lacquer beneath, the central band of the side with clear lacquer revealing the wood beneath, the underside also red-lacquered, indistinctly signed with black characters To . . . [East . . .]
Diam. 9 15/16in. (25.2cm.); 14 3/16in. (36.0cm.) high
Literature
Kawada Sadamu, Negoro (Kyoto: Shikosha, 1985), cat. no. 211.
Sakai-shi Hakubutsukan [Sakai City Museum], Shu-urushi (Negoro): Sono yo to bi: Shunki tokubetsuten [Red Lacquer: Utility and Beauty of Negoro: Spring Special Exhibition] (26 April - 25 May 1986; Sakai: 1986), cat. no. 142.
[Anon.], 'Tokushu Negoro [Negoro: Special edition]', Yuraku, 9 (1990), p. 13.
Ishikawa-ken Wajima Shitsugei Bijutsukan [Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum], Tokubetsuten: Negoro, sono katachi to iro [Special exhibition of Negoro: Its form and colour] (10 October - 7 December 1998; Wajima: 1998), cat. no. 48.
Sakai-shi Hakubutsukan [Sakai City Museum], Shu-urushi (Negoro): Sono yo to bi: Shunki tokubetsuten [Red Lacquer: Utility and Beauty of Negoro: Spring Special Exhibition] (26 April - 25 May 1986; Sakai: 1986), cat. no. 142.
[Anon.], 'Tokushu Negoro [Negoro: Special edition]', Yuraku, 9 (1990), p. 13.
Ishikawa-ken Wajima Shitsugei Bijutsukan [Ishikawa Wajima Urushi Art Museum], Tokubetsuten: Negoro, sono katachi to iro [Special exhibition of Negoro: Its form and colour] (10 October - 7 December 1998; Wajima: 1998), cat. no. 48.
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