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                Title
          - Water jar with lid (mizusashi)
Collection
          
        Period | Style | School
          
        Measurements
          - height: 18.5 cm
- diameter: 18.3 cm
Inventory number
          - OR 408
Acquisition
          - assumption , 1907
Department
          - Asia Collection
Description
          - 
                          Two water vessels play a key role in the Japanese tea ceremony—one for cold and the other for hot water. Cold water is ladled from a ceramic vessel in order to heat it up in an iron pot, or to clean other tea utensils. The cold-water pot has the form of an old tree trunk, while the pot for heating the water has an irregular and rust-colored surface. The idea of the imperfect, the incidental, is of great significance in the tea ceremony, and is intended to serve as a foil for the precision of the tea-drinking procedure and the perfection of the tea itself.
(Wieninger, Johannes)
                      
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            pot, Water jar with lid (mizusashi), Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. OR 408
Last update
        - 24.09.2025
 
                       
                       
                       
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
                                           
                                           
                                           
                                           
                                           
                                           
                                           
                                           
                                          