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Ewer (Suichū)
early 1600s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This ewer was made to replenish the jar that holds water for rinsing teabowls and filling the iron kettle at tea gatherings. Highly abstracted pine trees, cascading ivy, stripes, and grids make up the designs in underglaze iron oxide, while the overall surface alternates between a transparent glaze and a green glaze characteristic of some Oribe tea wares.
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- Title: Ewer (Suichū)
- Date Created: early 1600s
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: (Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to Mrs. R. Henry Norweb as a gift for the Cleveland Museum of Art), Mrs. R. Henry [Emery May Holden] Norweb [1895–1984], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.336
- Medium: Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type)
- Fun Fact: Oribe wares are named for the tea master Furuta Oribe, who initiated the flamboyant designs that characterize them.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Momoyama period (1573-1615)
- Credit Line: The Norweb Collection
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Accession Number: 1958.336
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