Tea bowl

Museum number:
9-12307
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012307
Alternate number:
1524 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
Description:
Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. Creamy blue-greenish glaze that didn't quite reach "hare's fur" quality, transparent at rim, and numerous pin holes and blotches that shows the buff body. Glazed to within 2cm of foot. Spots of blue at the interior bottom. Rim is thick, has been chipped and mended with gold. Similar in shape to 9-12300-?06. Height 9cm, Rim Diameter 11 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina. Attributed to 19th century.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and George H. Kerr
Collection place:
Tamayu-chō Fujina, Matsue City, Shimane Prefecture
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan; Fujina, Izumo Attr
Collection date:
before 1957
Materials:
Ceramic (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bowls (vessels)
Function:
5.5 Stimulants, Narcotics, and Accessories
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12307, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. Creamy blue-greenish glaze that didn't quite reach "hare's fur" quality, transparent at rim, and numerous pin holes and blotches that shows the buff body. Glazed to within 2cm of foot. Spots of blue at the interior bottom. Rim is thick, has been chipped and mended with gold. Similar in shape to 9-12300-?06. Height 9cm, Rim Diameter 11 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina. Attributed to 19th century.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12307, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. Creamy blue-greenish glaze that didn't quite reach "hare's fur" quality, transparent at rim, and numerous pin holes and blotches that shows the buff body. Glazed to within 2cm of foot. Spots of blue at the interior bottom. Rim is thick, has been chipped and mended with gold. Similar in shape to 9-12300-?06. Height 9cm, Rim Diameter 11 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina. Attributed to 19th century.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12307, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. Creamy blue-greenish glaze that didn't quite reach "hare's fur" quality, transparent at rim, and numerous pin holes and blotches that shows the buff body. Glazed to within 2cm of foot. Spots of blue at the interior bottom. Rim is thick, has been chipped and mended with gold. Similar in shape to 9-12300-?06. Height 9cm, Rim Diameter 11 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina. Attributed to 19th century.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12307, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. Creamy blue-greenish glaze that didn't quite reach "hare's fur" quality, transparent at rim, and numerous pin holes and blotches that shows the buff body. Glazed to within 2cm of foot. Spots of blue at the interior bottom. Rim is thick, has been chipped and mended with gold. Similar in shape to 9-12300-?06. Height 9cm, Rim Diameter 11 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina. Attributed to 19th century.

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