A Chakago (Set for the Traveling Tea Practice)

THE BASKET MEIJI-TAISHO PERIOD (19TH-20TH CENTURY), THE TEA BOWL EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)

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A Chakago (Set for the Traveling Tea Practice)
The basket Meiji-Taisho period (19th-20th century), the tea bowl Edo period (18th-19th century)
Including a Mino ware, Black Oribe (Kuro-Oribe) type glazed stoneware tea bowl, a lacquer tea caddy (natsume), tea whisk (chasen) with woven bamboo tea-whisk holder (chasen-zutsu), tea scoop (chashaku; folding tea scoop shown here is not original, the ivory tea scoop is available from Christie's Tokyo office), underglaze blue and white porcelain tea-cloth holder (chakin-zutsu) all contained in a woven bamboo covered basket
4¾ x 6 3/8in. (12 x 16.2cm.) (the basket)
Basket with wood box inscribed on the lid Kumimono chakago (Assembled tea basket) and signed on the underside of the lid Kagosho (basket maker) Hyoa (Ikeda Hyoa) kore o tsukuru (6)

拍品專文

For a similar but larger Oribe tea bowl see Miyeko Murase, ed., Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003), pl. 48.

The basketmaker Ikeda Hyoa I (d.1934) was in the circle of the collector and industrialist Masuda Takashi (1848-1938). Masuda, the director of the Mitsui Company, had a preference for traditional Japanese art and for the practice of tea, which he adapted to his personal taste. He was a patron of craftsmen who practiced traditional techniques, especially those who specialized in tea utensils. He employed them chiefly to make replicas of works in his collection for presentation to friends. In 1927, for example, he commissioned Ikeda to make a number of copies of a particularly distinguished sixteenth-century bamboo basket that had belonged to Sen no Rikyu.