A Narumi Oribe chawan. Mino region. Owari Province. Early Edo period

A Narumi Oribe chawan. Mino region. Owari Province. Early Edo period, 17th century Of wide slightly irregular shape with a waisted wall, set on a strong foot ring. Fine, hard brown clay covered with a very thin creme-coloured slip which leaves small parts of the underside and the foot ring exposed, and a blackish overglaze running in turquoise-green strips and forming droplets, interspersed with brown glaze dots. On the underside a gama-shirushi. Silk bag (shifuku). Height 6.8 cm; diameter 13.8 cm

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