Tea bowl

Museum number:
9-12305
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012305
Alternate number:
1522 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.07
Description:
Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. 2/3 sphere shape, thick blue-green crackled opaque glaze. Interior bottom has blue stains, some pits. Rim is quite worn. Exterior glaze uneven at bottom. Chips in the small foot. Small cracks in rim. Appears to have been soaked to darken the crackle and body. Similar to 9-12300-304 and 306-609. Height 8cm, Rim diameter 10cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.
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)
Loans:
S1976-1977 #62: University Art Museum (UC Berkeley) (April 4, 1977–July 20, 1977)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12305, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. 2/3 sphere shape, thick blue-green crackled opaque glaze. Interior bottom has blue stains, some pits. Rim is quite worn. Exterior glaze uneven at bottom. Chips in the small foot. Small cracks in rim. Appears to have been soaked to darken the crackle and body. Similar to 9-12300-304 and 306-609. Height 8cm, Rim diameter 10cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12305, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. 2/3 sphere shape, thick blue-green crackled opaque glaze. Interior bottom has blue stains, some pits. Rim is quite worn. Exterior glaze uneven at bottom. Chips in the small foot. Small cracks in rim. Appears to have been soaked to darken the crackle and body. Similar to 9-12300-304 and 306-609. Height 8cm, Rim diameter 10cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12305, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. 2/3 sphere shape, thick blue-green crackled opaque glaze. Interior bottom has blue stains, some pits. Rim is quite worn. Exterior glaze uneven at bottom. Chips in the small foot. Small cracks in rim. Appears to have been soaked to darken the crackle and body. Similar to 9-12300-304 and 306-609. Height 8cm, Rim diameter 10cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tea bowl, accession number 9-12305, described as Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. 2/3 sphere shape, thick blue-green crackled opaque glaze. Interior bottom has blue stains, some pits. Rim is quite worn. Exterior glaze uneven at bottom. Chips in the small foot. Small cracks in rim. Appears to have been soaked to darken the crackle and body. Similar to 9-12300-304 and 306-609. Height 8cm, Rim diameter 10cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina.

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