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Okabe, Mineo. Tea Bowl, ca. 1960. Buff stoneware, object: 3 3/8 x 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (8.6 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm)
Storage (wood box): 5 1/2 x 6 x 6 in. (14 x 15.2 x 15.2 cm). Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden, 2017.44.7. Creative Commons-BY.
This bowl by the twentieth-century master Okabe Mineo represents another type of ware that often included painterly brushwork: e-Shino, or painted Shino ware. Valued by tea masters for its uneven, bubble-pocked surface, the glaze on Shino wares partly obscures any marks made below. Here, the iron brown marks may depict bamboo stalks and leaves, a favorite motif of the eighteenth-century artist Ogata Kenzan, whose works provided inspiration for many of the ceramicists represented in this case.