Tea bowl

Museum number:

9-12300

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Alternate number:

1518 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07

Description:

tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. wide mouth, 3/4 sphere shape, mouth warped to oval. heavy base, fairly thin rim. crackled blue-green glaze, pitted inside and out. rim has a greener cast to it. glaze is semi-matte, runs to with-in 1.5 cm. of foot. similar to 9-12301-309. h. 9 cm., rim dia. 12 cm.

Donor:

Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr

Collection place:

Japan

Verbatim coll. place:

Japan; Shimane Prefecture, (Izumo Prov.), Fujina 19th c.

Collector:

George H. Kerr

Collection date:

before 1957

Materials:

Clay and Glaze (coating by location)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Bowls (vessels) and Stoneware (pottery)

Function:

5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories

Accession date:

1974

Context of use:

'Bote-bote' tea bowls were used by the farmers of the Izumo area to drink a special type of tea known by this name." * Botebote tea is made of a mixture of banch tea leaves and dried tea flowers over which hot water is poured and whipped to a froth with a whisk. rice, beans, miso and Japanese pickles were then added and eaten. this style of drinking tea was peculiar to the Izumo Province and was encouraged by the Lord of that domain, Matsudaira Fumai, an accomplished master of tea.

Department:

Asia (except western Russia)

Dimensions:

diameter 12 centimeters and height 9 centimeters

Loans:

S1976-1977 #40: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (January 18, 1977–February 16, 1977), S1976-1977 #62: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 4, 1977–July 20, 1977), and S1978-1979 #5: International Exhibitions Foundation (August 9, 1978–March 23, 1979)

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