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19TH/20TH CENTURY
Details
A group of five tea-bowls (CHAWAN)
19th/20th century
A globular Karatsu ware bowl, the crackled grey-white glaze with a flower design in brown covering the dark brown body, 13 cm. diam.; an irregularly shaped bowl with a mouse-grey glaze and patches of brown over a grey body, decorated in white with young fern leaves, 12.5 cm. diam.; a cylindrical bowl with a light brown body covered with a finely crackled grey-white glaze, and a brown coloured design of a landscape, 14 cm. diam.; a bowl with outward sloping sides forming a wide mouth, the dark grey body covered with a crackled soft yellow glaze and decorated in blue with a design of Chinese boys (karako), 13 cm. diam.; and a low irregular shaped bowl, the yellow body covered with a heavy crackled white glaze and painted with a blue-grey floral design, 13 cm. diam. (5)
19th/20th century
A globular Karatsu ware bowl, the crackled grey-white glaze with a flower design in brown covering the dark brown body, 13 cm. diam.; an irregularly shaped bowl with a mouse-grey glaze and patches of brown over a grey body, decorated in white with young fern leaves, 12.5 cm. diam.; a cylindrical bowl with a light brown body covered with a finely crackled grey-white glaze, and a brown coloured design of a landscape, 14 cm. diam.; a bowl with outward sloping sides forming a wide mouth, the dark grey body covered with a crackled soft yellow glaze and decorated in blue with a design of Chinese boys (karako), 13 cm. diam.; and a low irregular shaped bowl, the yellow body covered with a heavy crackled white glaze and painted with a blue-grey floral design, 13 cm. diam. (5)
Provenance
The first bowl from The Tomkinson Collection
Exhibited
The last two bowls exhibited in Singer Museum, Laren, May-July 1975.
Special notice
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