A taste for grandeur characteristic of the Momoyama period marks this capacious curved bowl with gracefully flared lip that was used for serving food. Its elegant hight ring foot forms a pedestal that accentuates the bounteous form and also functions to ease handling of such a large piece.
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Title:High-Footed Bowl
Period:Momoyama period (1573–1615)
Date:early 17th century
Culture:Japan
Medium:Negoro ware; red lacquer on black lacquer
Dimensions:H. 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm ); Diam. 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm)
Classification:Lacquer
Credit Line:Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015
Accession Number:2015.500.2.13
[ Alice Boney , New York, until 1983; sold to Irving]; Florence and Herbert Irving , New York (1983–2015; donated to MMA)
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Watt, James C. Y., and Barbara Brennan Ford. East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, pp. 197, 374, cat. no. 87, fig. 87.
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