Height 7.0cm, mouth diameter 10.0-10.5cm, base diameter 5.1cm
This tea bowl is harder fired than the plum design tea bowl. It is glazed with underglaze iron pigments and gosu, and white mud to represent branches, buds, or flowers of plum trees, then overglazed with transparent glaze to represent red flowers and green branches. All of these teacups were brushed with iron paint around the mouth in the style of lipstick, which is one of the rules of the tea ceremony. The inscription of “Qianzan” is written on the side or inside of the base of the bowls that do not have a poem inscription, but this tea bowl has the inscription of “Qianzan” written in iron paint inside of the base of the bowl. It once belonged to the Konoike family in Osaka.
