Tea Bowl with Design of Daruma and Inscription

Item

Title

Tea Bowl with Design of Daruma and Inscription

Description

Kyoto stoneware tea bowl with iron and cobalt decoration of Daruma from the 19th century.

Creator

Unknown; false signature of Okuda Eisen (1753-1811)

Source

Charles Lang Freer Collection, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

Date

19th century, Edo period or Meiji era

Contributor

Katie Lansing

Site pages

A Tribute to Spirituali-Tea in Feudal Japan

Transporting Across Borders: The Man with no Eyelids

Media

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