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Huge Oribe Style Footed Ceramic Bowl Drip Glaze, Meiji browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Stoneware: Pre 1900: item # 784321 Please refer to our stock # 2A-801 when inquiring.
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The interior of this impressive heavily potted Japanese stoneware bowl is decorated with a quickly drawn scene of trees in a rocky landscape, a very classical scene often observed on scroll paintings. Meiji period, late 19th century. Possibly Oribe or Seto ware. The design was freely drawn and boldly executed in underglaze iron-oxide brown and ochre pigments using just a few simple brush strokes on a richly-crackled cream ground. The thick and glossy mottled copper green glaze which covers the outside of the bowl also drips randomly into the interior at the lip and also onto the three stout feet. The bowl is fully covered in a clear glaze, except where there are interior and exterior spur marks from when the bowl was stacked during firing in the kiln. Large footed bowls such as this one were likely used for ikebana arrangements or for other floral or bonsai displays. Oribe ware, a folk pottery produced in kilns located in Mino and Seto, is particularly Japanese in taste and was never made for export. Its characteristics included bold and spontaneous designs and contours that were executed in styles that were distinct, imaginative and vigorous. Although the design, glazing and coloration were done in Oribe style, this dish could have come from other Japanese folk kilns. It is often difficult to identify the specific place of manufacture of many 19th century Japanese folk ceramics because the spread of technology from one area to another was a particularly distinctive feature of the early to mid-19th century. This gave rise to a situation in which ceramics of closely similar types were made all over Japan. CONDITION is excellent, with normal kiln burns and bubbles on the surface of the glaze. There are no chips, cracks or restoration. This is a wonderfully large example of Japanese folk ceramics. DIMENSIONS: 15 ¾” (40 cm) diameter, 4” (10.2 cm) high. Weight: 10.5 pounds (4.8 kg). |
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