pot

• Water vessel (mizusashi) with wooden cover

• Asia collection

• execution: anonymous, Seto, 17th century

• Edo period (1603-1868)

• Steinzeug mit unregelmäßiger Überlaufglasur,

• lackiertes Holz

• height: 15.3 cm
• diameter: 16.1 cm

• KE 6916

• donation , 1928

• Asia Collection

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)

• MAK-Schausammlung ASIEN. China – Japan – Korea (seit 2016)

on display

• pot, Water vessel (mizusashi) with wooden cover, Anonym, MAK Inv.nr. KE 6916

• https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/water-vessel-mizusashi-with-wooden-cover_46153

• 14.03.2025