Height: 3.8cm, Bore: 5.6cm, Bottom: 3.2cm
Manno Art Museum
This is a flat, round, and elegant incense container with rounded, stroked shoulders and hips. On the front of the lid, a single ten-petaled chrysanthemum glaze is engraved in a random line, and iron pigments are painted on the line. The entire body, except for the ridge of the body, is covered with a thick ash glaze. The glazed surface is more fused than that of an oil-glazed hand, with a slightly rough penetration, and the glaze tone is close to that of a so-called “suguinote” (a drinking vessel). The glaze color is yellow with a whitish tinge, and brown burn marks appear around the base. There are no other examples of chrysanthemum incense containers with a single glaze of Kizeto, and they are very popular among the sukiya (connoisseurs). This piece is from the former collection of Morikawa Nyoshunan in Nagoya. It was probably made between the end of the Tensho period and the Bunroku period.
