Set of Five Everyday Vessels (Kurawanka Bowls)
These bowls, mass-produced in Hasami, are of a type of multipurpose, inexpensive tableware used by commoners of the late Edo period. Known as kurawanka, such vessels were employed by vendors aboard kurawanka-bune, small boats that sold food and drink to passengers on the larger ferries traveling the Yodo River between Kyoto and Osaka. The bowl’s thick body and sturdy form made it easy to hold, even aboard a rocking watercraft.
Artwork Details
- くらわんか碗 5口
- Title: Set of Five Everyday Vessels (Kurawanka Bowls)
- Period: middle Edo period (1615–1868)
- Date: early 19th century
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Hasami type)
- Dimensions: Diam. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
- Object Number: 1975.268.634
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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