Shino tea bowl with bride design, known as “Musashibo”

Shino tea bowl with bride design, known as "Musashibo"

Height 10.4cm, mouth diameter 13.0cm, base diameter 6.1cm
 This is a large tea bowl with a stroking triangular shape and a bulge on the body, which strongly adds an artifice of hand-kneading style. This tea bowl also has a picture of a bridge on one side of the outside and a simple hedge-like pattern on the other side, but it is painted with a strong brushwork. The glaze is quite thin and soft, resulting in a reddish Shino glaze. The base of the vessel is clearly an attached base, as if a round piece of clay has been pressed into the surface. It is not clear when these seemingly random yet quite artful tea bowls began to be fired, but it is thought that they may have come from the Yuiemon kiln in Ohira, rather than Oyakko. On the back of the lid of the box, Yabuuchi Takeo inscribed the inscription “Musashibo yo.

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