Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane

mid-19th century

Not on view

Eiraku Hozen was a prominent ceramist during the late Edo period, a time when imperial temples and daimyo households started to commission wares from Kyoto potters. Brightly colored and embellished with glittering gold and silver details, the tea bowl is decorated with motifs of the rising sun and auspicious cranes in celebration of the New Year. With this decoration, Hozen revived the style of Nonomura Ninsei, the most well-known potter of late seventeenth-century Kyoto.

Artwork Details

永樂保全作　色絵日之出鶴文茶碗
Title: Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane
Artist: Eiraku Hozen (Japanese, 1795–1854)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: mid-19th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Stoneware with cream slip under a white slip and polychrome enamels, gold, and silver over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type)
Dimensions: H. 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); Diam. of rim 5 in. (12.7 cm); Diam. of base 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893
Object Number: 93.3.216
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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