Cha-kaiseki

Ceramic

  • Sold

  • Size

    7.5 (h) x 9.6 x 9.2cm


  • Period

    Edo period (1603-1868), ca. 18th century


  • Box

    Awasebako (old collector's box)


  • Exhibited

    Exhibited and published in Flickwerk – The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University Ithaca NY, USA and Museum für Lackkunst, a division of BASF Coatings AG Münster, Germany, 2008


Description

Ki-Seto cha-kaiseki mukozuke

Bowl for the simple meal of the tea ceremony in Yellow Seto sandstone and kintsugi repair in gold lacquer with the motifs of uguisu (bush warbler) singing on a branch of ume (plum tree in blossom), symbolizing the arrival of spring, and bearing in gold letters the auspicious inscription 壽, kotobuki, meaning "Congratulations for a long and happy life".

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