Oribe Ware Side Dish for the Tea Ceremony Meal
Original Language Title織部筒向付
CultureJapanese
DateMomoyama period (1568-1615)
MediumStone ware with green and tranparent glazes, underglaze iron oxide and white slip-painted designs (Oribe type)
DimensionsOverall: 3 15/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 3/8 inches (10 × 6.03 × 6.03 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number80-39/7
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DescriptionA teacup of buff Oribe stoneware for use in the tea ceremony. Body of rounded square section with vertical indentations and brown vertical stripes against a salmon-colored ground, which continues around the surface to the adjacent sides which are decorated with inverted chevrons. The mouth is decoraed with Oribe green glaze.Gallery LabelThis dish would have held a small, single serving of an appetizer at a simple meal served prior to a chanoyu tea ceremony. The tall shape indicates that the dish was meant to be used in wintertime.
With Yamanaka & Co., Before October 12, 1965.
Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr., Shawnee Mission, KS, October 12, 1965- December 16, 1980;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1980.Patricia
Graham, “Japanese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,” Orientations 16, no. 8
(1985):18, fig. 7.
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