Height 26.5 cm, mouth diameter 9.8 cm, body diameter 23.8 cm, bottom diameter 10.3 cm
This tea jar has a similar shape to the tea jar with moon and plum blossoms in overglaze enamels, but is slightly smaller in size. However, the white ground glaze from the mouth to the bottom of the body melts smoothly, as in the “tea jar with moon and plum tree design in overglaze enamels”.
The body is decorated with dragons in red, green, yellow, purple, gold, and silver, all in the style of the Kano school. The base of the body is burnished red, contrasting vividly with the white glaze, and there are fine grinding marks around the base.
The lid of the box in which it is housed bears the inscription “No. 7” on the right shoulder and “Kyogoku katagata (Gozabu) shosuke-dono comforting goyakihou brocade teapot 2tsu no nouchi” in the center, which clearly indicates that the tea pot was ordered by the Kyogoku family. One of the two tea pots may have been a “tea jar with wisteria flowers in overglaze enamels”. The fact that some of the best examples of Ninsei’s tea pots were handed down to the Kyogoku family suggests that the relationship between the Omuroyaki family and the Kyogoku family was quite close.
