Large Bowl (suribachi)

Accession Number
2010/1.209

Title
Large Bowl (suribachi)

Artist(s)
Okuda Eizan

Object Creation Date
2005

Medium & Support
stoneware with natural ash glaze

Dimensions
10 1/4 x 24 5/8 x 25 1/16 in. (26.04 x 62.55 x 63.66 cm);12.9 x 27 3/8 x 27 3/8 in. (32.86 x 69.53 x 69.53 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of the artist

Label copy
The youngest artist to be included in this exhibition, Okuda Eizan grew up in a family of Shigaraki potters. From the beginning of his training in ceramics, Okuda focused on creating tea wares for the modern tea ceremony. Not only has he studied, like his predecessors, the techniques and forms of Momoyama wares, but he also apprenticed as a tea ceremony practitioner.
This large bowl is modeled after a type of grinding bowl used in farmhouses in the countryside. In a tea ceremony context, this bowl most likely would have been used as an urn for hand washing placed at the entrance to a tearoom.
(Turning Point exhibition, Spring 2010)

Subject matter
This large bowl is modeled after a type of grinding bowl used in farmhouses in the countryside. In a tea ceremony context, this bowl most likely would have been used as an urn for hand washing placed at the entrance to a tearoom.

Physical Description
Large bowl with wide and asymmetrical rim and natural ash glaze. The bowl appears to be orange on the outside, and multi-colored on the inside.

Primary Object Classification
Ceramic

Primary Object Type
bowl

Collection Area
Asian

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Keywords
bowls (vessels)
ceramic ware (visual works)
ceramics (object genre)
pottery (visual works)
stoneware (pottery)

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