Japan Unknown
Unknown: Tea Bowl Oribe Style

stoneware
3 x 6 x 4.5 in.
2015.115
Gift of Stephen and Sophie Mathonnet-VanderWell

This bowl is an example of a modern interpretation of late 16th and early 17th century Japanese Oribe ware. Oribe ware encompasses many diverse type of glazing and decoration, but is characterized overall by asymmetrical vessel shapes and designs, with some vessels exhibiting deformed shapes, achieved by the use of moulding rather just the use of the potter’s wheel. This bowl belongs to the “black Oribe” style in which a lustrous black glaze is poured on, and the unglazed areas have a painted abstract design.  This exhibition also has several examples of “green Oribe” style stoneware that uses a rich green copper sulfate glaze thats contrast with asymmetrical white areas of painted decoration in red iron oxide.

Text Panel from the exhibition Chanoyu: Ceramic Art in Japanese Tea Ceremony
March 16 – April 7, 2019
Groot Gallery
Co-curated by students and faculty from Carleton College and St. Olaf College