Details
A Fine Negoro Heishi [Bottle]
Kamakura/Muromachi Period (14th-15th Century)
Of turned and assembled wood with curved top meeting the everted sides to form a crisp edge, the sides narrowing towards a broad base above a low foot, the underside slightly recessed, the spout rising from a raised circular platform, the red lacquer worn away in places, especially at the rim, revealing the black lacquer beneath, the recessed underside lacquered black and inscribed with the character ue [above] and a mark in the form of the character i [well]
Height 12 1/16in (30.6cm.); diam. 8¾in. (22.2cm.)
Literature
Mizuguchi Saburo and Arakawa Hirokazu, Negoro (Atami: Atami Bijutsukan, 1966), cat. no. 1.
Nara Kenritsu Bijutsukan [Nara Prefectural Museum of Art], Tokubetsuten: Negoro no bi [Special exhibition: The beauty of Negoro] (Nara: 1975), cat. no. 71.
Kawada Sadamu, Negoro-nuri [Negoro ware], Nihon no bijutsu, 120 (Tokyo; Shibundo, April 1976), no. 4.
Santori Bijutsukan [Suntory Museum of Art], Negoro-nuri [Negoro ware] (Tokyo: 1979), no. 2.
Kawada Sadamu, Negoro (Kyoto: Shikosha, 1985), cat. no. 9.
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. 7.
[Anon.], 'Tokushu Negoro [Negoro: Special edition]', Yuraku, 9 (1990), p. 12.
Arakawa Hirokazu and others, Nihon no shitsugei 5: Urushi-e, Negoro [Lacquer art of Japan 5: Urushi-e and Negoro] (Standard edition; Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 1991), cat. no. 75.
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. 1.