Gray Shino shallow bowl with lotus design

Gray Shino shallow bowl with lotus design

Height 5.7cm, Bore 25.3cm, Four legs
Hatakeyama Memorial Museum
 This is a large flat bowl with a sharply folded mouth that is further bent back at the edges to form a stroking four-sided shape, with legs attached to the four sides of the slightly rounded, flat bottom. The lotus flower and stem are carved in light lines, and the veins of the lotus leaves and the lotus leaves and the lotus leaves are decorated in iron on the surface. The design of the mouth rim with a rim pattern, as if it were a picture frame, is also heartbreaking and shows a design ability that is not easy to attain. On the back of the bowl, an ogi-ita (devil’s plate) is applied to the bottom, and fine white clay can be seen in the center. The white glaze, applied thickly and thinly, has melted well, leaving eight unevenly rounded marks around the legs and four small marks on the prospective surface. It is estimated that the kiln may have been either the under-kiln kiln at Oyaya or the Oyasan Omote Kiln at Kusajiri.

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