A Stoneware Tea Bowl (chawan)

IRABO WARE, YELLOW IRABO (KI-IRABO) TYPE, KOREA, CHOSON PERIOD (17TH CENTURY)

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A Stoneware Tea Bowl (chawan)
Irabo ware, Yellow Irabo (Ki-Irabo) type, Korea, Choson period (17th century)
The conical bowl set on a splayed ring foot and painted in iron-oxide with a single stalk of grass over a yellow glaze of ash and iron-bearing clay pooling to green in places
3½in. (9cm.) high; 5 3/8in. (13.6cm.) diameter
With a wood box inscribed E Ki-Irabo (Painted yellow Irabo)

Lot Essay

Irabo (literally, "rough-textured") painted bowls were commissioned by Japanese tea masters from the Yangsan kiln in Korea (see also lot 3). The artless underglaze-iron design on the side of this bowl is in the style of contemporary E-Garatsu, painted Karatsu wares.

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