Tea bowl

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Tea bowl

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Date
17th century
Medium
Ko-Satsuma ware, stoneware with slip and glaze decor
Department
Asian Art
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
51415

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Korean potters first founded the Satsuma kilns on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu in the late 1500s. Catering to the tastes of tea masters of the time, potters in Satsuma produced a variety of tea wares, most notably tea bowls and caddies. This bowl was decorated with thick irregular swathes of black and white clay slip and green glaze. Its somber tones and irregular shape accord well with the wabi (imperfect or rustic) aesthetic championed by Japan’s most renowned tea master, Sen no Rikyū (1522–1591). Asia

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Gift of the Friends of the Institute

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