Height 14.8cm, Bowl diameter 16.8cm, Bottom diameter 11.6cm
Yugi Museum of Art
This piece is almost the same as Figure 19, but the body is a little taut. The white glaze from the mouth to the outer edge is thinner and the penetration is finer than that of the “Water jar with peony design in overglaze enamels”. The mouth is covered with a lotus petal design, and black glaze is applied around the lotus petal design. The shoulder and chest are decorated with silver Genji clouds like a curtain, and the body is clearly painted with a bridge in red, silver, and gold, with a budding willow tree. The body of the round water jar is decorated with a clear red, silver, and gold bridge with sprouting willow trees.
The back of the container is decorated with wave patterns, and the silver overglaze paint has oxidized and bled into the glazed surface in black. The thinly glazed interior has a rabbit pattern, and the clay is visible from the base to the bottom.
On the back of the lid of the inner box, Iki Sanzansai, a retainer of the Okayama domain, wrote that this tea jar was made by Ninsei in Marugame and handed down to the Kyogoku family, but of course there is no information on what happened during this period. It was probably ordered by the Marugame Kyogoku family along with other tea pots.
