Tea bowl, ceramic. Fujina ware. Somewhat vertical sides tapering to small foot. Opaque thick blue-green crackled glaze to within 1.5 cm of foot. Some pits on inside, fewer on outside. Glaze thin and yellow at rim . Small crack in rim. Height 9.5 cm, Rim Diameter 12 cm. From Japan, Shimane Prefecture (Izumo Province), Fujina. Attributed to 19th century.
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)