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Tea Storage Jar
Nonomura NinseiLinkedCulture matchlcp-f55c4667bd8e
- Date
- mid- to late 1600s
- Medium
- Stoneware with white glaze (Shigaraki style)
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149406
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In this tea storage jar, Nonomura Ninsei reinterpreted a Shigaraki stoneware—made to hold agricultural products and known for its warm orange color, asymmetrical round forms, and irregular natural ash glazes—to produce a more refined piece that would appeal to tea masters seeking a touch of rusticity. In Japanese tea culture, hanging scroll paintings or calligraphy are placed in the tokonoma , or viewing alcove, for participants to admire and discuss along with the utensils used in the gathering. The scrolls are typically paired with vessels containing seasonal floral arrangements. This jar may be considered an example of the aesthetic known as kireisabi , or refined rusticity.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- paper on underside of box lid: A tea container by Ninsei alleged to come from the Meada family of Toyama. | ?–1978: (Fugendo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1978–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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