A Negoro red-lacquer and exposed wood yuto (ewer for hot water)


Muromachi (1333-1573), Momoyama (1573-1615) or Edo period (1615-1868), 16th/17th centuryThe rounded rectangular spouted vessel resting on a base with scalloped feet, the recessed bands at the top, shoulder and bottom setting off the natural grain of the wide band of keyaki wood around the middle left uncoloured, with an elegant curving spout and large trilobate handle; with a wooden storage box with an inscribed paper label Muromachi Negoro suichu (Negoro ewer made in the Muromachi period). 30cm (11¾in) high. (3).
|Compare with an almost identical ewer in the Hosomi Museum, illustrated and published by the Miho Museum, Shu-urushi 'Negoro' chusei ni saita hana (Negoro: Efflorescence of Medieval Japanese Lacquerware), exhibition catalogue, 1 September-15 December 2013, p.240, cat. no.251.