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Title
- Water vessel (mizusashi) with wooden cover
Collection
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
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Steinzeug mit unregelmäßiger Überlaufglasur,
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lackiertes Holz
Measurements
- height: 15.3 cm
- diameter: 16.1 cm
Inventory number
- KE 6916
Acquisition
- donation, 1928
Department
- Asia Collection
Description
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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)
On display
on display
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pot, Water vessel (mizusashi) with wooden cover, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. KE 6916
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https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/water-vessel-mizusashi-with-wooden-cover_46153
Last update
- 23.01.2025
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