Water Container (Mizusashi) with Riverscape
late 1500s–early 1600s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Water Container (Mizusashi) with Riverscape, late 1500s–early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615) to Edo period (1615-1858). Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide slip decoration (Mino ware, Shino type); diameter: 19.6 cm (7 11/16 in.); lid: 2.9 x 14.7 cm (1 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.); container: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1972.9.a The water this container held during a tea ceremony was used to fill the kama, or iron pot in which the water is heated.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide slip decoration (Mino ware, Shino type)
- Medium
- stoneware, underglaze, iron, oxide, slip, decoration, mino, ware, shino, type
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 19.6 cm (7 11/16 in.); Lid: 2.9 x 14.7 cm (1 1/8 x 5 13/16 in.); Container: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1972.9.a
- Credit Line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Exhibitions
- The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, ORIBE: Researching "Oribeism", Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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