

Vintage Japanese Pottery
Vintage Japanese Iga-Yaki Tea Kaiseki Mukozuke Serving Piece
Age:Showa Era (1950s)
Descriptive qualities& condition:
Dimensions: 2-0” h x 5-5/8” square
This lovely square serving piece is from the Iga region. The clay is coarse and consists of a high level of pre-historic fossilized microorganisms that leave the clay porous when fired. With this effect it creates the visual signature of the wabi-sabi unfinished beauty, and has been praised by pottery lovers in Japan over centuries.
This serving bowl is a perfect example of Iga pottery of this era being bold, playful and abstract graphic design and an assemblage of distinctly different ceramic finishes. It is hand-formed and incorporated brownish copper and dark green glazed motifs on the interior and exterior of the sides of the bowl with subtile textured line work on the interior bottom, and on the sides of the piece. The bowl is raised with a circular base. The piece is hand inscribed on the bottom.
Condition: Excellent condition as originally formed. No imperfections with a wonderful “hand” to the touch. It has all the welcoming characteristics of Iga-yaki's historic wabi-sabi beauty.