Heisei period, dated 1998
H. 12.5 x Diam. 41.9 cm (4 15/16 x 16 1/2 in.)
Collection of the artist, Kimura Moriyasu, 1998-2000
Light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and russet markings
19th-20th centuryJapaneseTemmoku-inspired ware; light gray stoneware with impressed decoration inlaid with white slip under clear glaze, the floor of the bowl covered with black glaze partially washed with overglaze brown slip
20th centuryJapaneseBizen-type ware; reddish stoneware with incised and combed decoration and with three bands of oxidized silver-foil embellishment
20th centuryJapaneseSilver
19th-20th centuryJapaneseMolded white stoneware with decoration in pink and iron-saturated blue glaze over a semi-opaque, blue-tinted white glaze
20th centuryJapaneseEnameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark on base reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th-20th centuryJapaneseImitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base
19th-20th centuryJapaneseCeramic
20th centuryJapaneseLight gray stoneware (possibly porcelain) with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron black slip
20th centuryJapaneseEnamelled porcelain in the style of Swatow porcelain of the Wan-li period: porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels
20th centuryJapaneseCeramic
20th centuryJapaneseLight gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip under translucent light bluish green glaze
20th centuryJapanese