A stoneware teabowl


Mino ware, Nezumi Shino type, Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryThe wide bowl set on a ring foot and decorated with a foot bridge and three chevronsWith a wood storage box inscribed in gold lacquer Nezumi Shino chawan 5 1/2in (14cm) diameter
|The decoration on this bowl was achieved by first covering the white clay body in iron-rich slip, and then incising the decoration. The bowl was then covered in a thick white feldspathic glaze. Upon firing the areas of incised design show white while the rest of the areas covered in the slip turned gray or red where the glaze was thin.