Height 9.5cm, Bowl diameter 12.7cm, Base diameter 6.0cm
Shino Tea Bowl with Landscape Design “Asahagi” is a tea bowl that once belonged to Lord Matsudaira Fumai. It is a Shino tea bowl with a very elaborate shape, and the maze-like pattern around the waist is also characteristic of this type of tea bowl.
It is considered to be one step deeper than the semi-tubular tea bowls, and is considered to be a little later in age. The body is painted with a picture of a mountain with trees, which is often seen in Shino paintings, and is covered with a white glaze, which is very beautiful and shiny, and may have given it the name “Asa “Hagi” (morning bush clover)”, which is reminiscent of dewy white flowers. The base of the bowl is distorted into a triangular shape, corresponding to the varied body of the bowl. It was later moved from the Matsudaira family to the Dan family, and then to the current owner’s warehouse.
