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Title
  • Water vessel (mizusashi) with wooden cover
Collection
Production
  • execution: Anonym, Seto, 17th century
Period | Style | School
Material | Technique
  • Steinzeug mit unregelmäßiger Überlaufglasur
  • , lackiertes Holz
Measurements
  • height: 15.3 cm
  • diameter: 16.1 cm
Inventory number
  • KE 6916
Acquisition
  • donation, 1928
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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  • 26.09.2024


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