Ewer (Suichu)
early 1600s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Ewer (Suichu), early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615). Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type); diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1958.336.a This ewer was made to replenish the jar that holds water for rinsing teabowls and filling the iron kettle at tea gatherings. Highly abstracted pine trees, cascading ivy, stripes, and grids make up the designs in underglaze iron oxide, while the overall surface alternates between a transparent glaze and a green glaze characteristic of some Oribe tea wares.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type)
- Dimensions
- Diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1958.336.a
- Credit Line
- The Norweb Collection
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Decorative Style, Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615), The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan, ORIBE: Researching "Oribeism", Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235, Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection, <em>Masterpieces of Asian Art in American Collections</em>. Asia Society, New York, NY (January 5-February 14, 1960).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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