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Source Description
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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135330
label
Ewer (Suichū)
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135330
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title
Ewer (Suichū)
description
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.
date
early 1600s
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80028471
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Ceramic
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import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)
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Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615)
accession
1958.336
Source extras
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Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type)
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Ewer (Suichū) (織部手付水注), early 1600s. Japan, Momoyama period (1573–1615). Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type); diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1958.336
titleInOriginalLanguage
織部手付水注
collection
Japanese Art
didYouKnow
Oribe wares are named for the tea master Furuta Oribe, who initiated the flamboyant designs that characterize them.
citations
citation
Lee, Sherman E. <em>Japanese Decorative Style</em>. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 54, p. 54
citation
Lee, Sherman E. <em>A History of Far Eastern Art</em>. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 495, fig. 652
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
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Reproduced: p. 281
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
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Reproduced: p. 281
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 379
citation
Cunningham, Michael R.<em> The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 134
citation
Takeuchi, Junʼichi 竹内順一, and Dean Robson. <em>Oribe, iwayuru Oribeizumu ni tsuite: Gifuken Bijutsukan kaikan 15-shūnen kinenten</em> [織部, いわゆるオリベイズムについて : 岐阜県美術館開館 15周年記念 = Oribe, (re)searching "Oribeism" : special exhibition for the 15th anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu]. Gifu-shi: Gifu-ken Bijutsukan, 1997.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 148, cat. no. 119
creditline
The Norweb Collection
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2026-05-29 06:55:03.648000
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135330
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Japanese Art
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Japanese Art
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Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type)
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