Tea bowl with designs of pine boughs and interlocking circles, unknown Raku ware workshop
18th-19th century
,
Edo period
Raku-type earthenware with Black Raku glaze
H: 7.7
W: 13.4
cm
Kyoto,
Japan
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
F1898.438
The subtle design on this bowl was incised through the unfired glaze, rather than painted. The painting mode of Ogata Korin (1658–1716) inspired the simplified rendering of the rounded clusters of pine needles.