Seto Ware Tea Bowl, "Aogoke"

Artist: Unknown

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Medium

Stoneware, brown-black iron glaze

Dimensions

3 1/16 × 4 13/16 in. (7.7 × 12.2 cm)

Credit Line

Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, LL.B. 1963

Loan number

ILE2017.16.2

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

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Provenance

Provenance

With S. Yabumoto Ltd., Tokyo, by 1980; sold to Peggy D. Danziger (née Block) and Richard “Dick” M. Danziger, New York, and Purchase, New York, 1980 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–24); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2024
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Object/Work type

stoneware, tea bowls

Inscriptions

Side of outer kiri box bears paper label inscribed "Seto Aogoke chawan [Seto "Green Moss" teabowl] \ Kobori Sôkei hako [box inscription by Kobori Sôkei (b. 1923, 12th head of Enshu school)]."\r\nLid obverse inscribed "Seo ... chawan [Seto ... teabowl] \ Aogoke [green moss]."\r\nLid reverse inscribed with a Chinese poem of five lines, seven characters each, beginning "The green moss covering the earth absorbs the remaining rain; The verdant tree's shade hastens the evening coolness." Signed with tea name and cipher of Kobori Sôkei.\r\nOld kiri box lid obverse inscribed "Seto ... chawan [Seto ... teabowl]." Reverse inscribed "aogoke to iu [named Aogoke]."\r\nSide of box inscribed in ink "Enshû Kurachô [Enshu storeroom record] ... to iu [named ...] \ Seto chawan ate [lists a Seto teabowl] ... shiroki ari nari [... is white] (i.e., the Enshû Kurachô lists a Seto teabowl named ...)\r\nBottom inscribed "Onozukara [personally] \ Kyûzan zô [made by Kyûzan]" (boxmaker's signature?)\r\n青苔地上消残雨\r\n緑樹陰前逐晩涼\r\nすずしやと 草むらごとに 堂ちよれ者 あつさ耳まさる とこ奈つ乃花\r\n

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