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Japanese TEA BOWL - MINO

Another tea bowl I bought from the seller that has 400 year old "Oribe" style/type tea bowls.

Note : Again, I do not think these bowls are 400 years old.

I bought them because I like them.

This is not a rant about the seller.

It is more of the interesting accounts that occurred

during the time I was buying these Mino tea bowls.

The seller's description :

Kuro-Oribe Chawan of  Early Edo Period  

" Slightly distorted cylinder shaped (hanzutsu) tea bowl with a rounded brim,  made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay.

The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potter's knife in its lower part and around the foot ring.

In the style of Seto -Kuro bowls the this bowl was covered with a glossy, light brown glaze.

On one side a window was left unglazed and decorated with plants and grass in iron oxide under a clear ash glaze.

The low foot ring and the bowl's cylindrical shape resembles a Seto-Kuro bowl.

Next to the foot ring is an incised potters mark (kamajirushi) in form of a T.

This mark is commonly affiliated with the Kyoto trader Shimbei and was frequently found on early 17th century (arround1620) pots of the Entogawa-kiln in Mino.
The bowl is well balanced. "

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