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Hey Folks,
I thought I would update this post. It seems that the bowl and box have been together this whole time, traveled all the way to me from 17th century Japan, and it is definitely going to stay with me as my near daily tea bowl.
I heard back from Louise Cort, Curator Emerita of Ceramics at the Freer Sackler.
Here is an excerpt from her response, with an interesting historical side note on the Wakan Kiln, where this was produced.
"Your tea bowl is an example of an Irabo type of koraijawan, with yellowish ash glaze over a dark stoneware body.
I am quite thrilled to have have resolved this, and look forward to my time with such a wonderful little bowl.
Jeremy
Hi Jeremy,
An enjoyable journey you have been on. To hold and use a piece with so much history is a special feeling. That is just an excerpt from Ms. Cort's response? My goodness, she took some time to look into it. That is wonderful. She sure knows her stuff...
Coincidentally, I have been down the same road the last few days. Learning about Ido and Totoya bowls. Quite interesting stuff. I keep running across pictures of the most famous of chawans, the Kizaemon. Japanese tea bowls of this type are an acquired taste, but once you can see the beauty, there is not much else like it. From what I've read there is still debate as to what original Korean Ido bowls were even used for. The issue being...if they were simple household items, why are they so few of them? Some think they were ritual pieces.
Best, Todd
take it with a grain of salt
Todd,
It has been extremely enjoyable and rewarding, at least the feeling one gets with such a confirmation of their "gut" feelings, and of course knowing that the bowl has traveled so far to be here.
I said excerpt, but really I left out just the pleasantries and some of the back and forth, however she wrote such a well worded explanation I figured I could not put it into better words myself.
I have too been reading a lot on early Korean Chawans, as you can imagine, and the Ido and Totoya bowls are so stunning, I would love to find one of each type. The Kizaemon bowl is exceptional, but I hope that whatever bowls I get do not lead to getting boils.
I believe the bowls from the earlier eras 14th-16th centuries were in fact utilitarian wares in Korea that the Japanese, lacking similar glazes in their own kilns, held as very prized tea ceremony objects. My understanding is that by the 17th century the kilns in Korea were "taken over or the export was managed" by the Japanese merchants, who commercialized the production. The bowls remained special order, and very expensive and prized, but the forms changed to specific tea use, mine as well as most tea specific ones, have a depression in the center for the tea leaves to settle, the earlier ones do not often have that feature, unless accidentally the center collapsed during firing or something like that. I think that only the very best glazed early ones, or ones deemed the most pleasing were ultimately brought to Japan as tea bowls, thus there are so few.... think out of the 100 or so mass-fired in a stacked kiln, one or two the glaze did something out of the norm, spattered or dripped, or turned an interesting color, or burned to a contrasting shade... I think those are the ones that were selected.
I am certainly taken by the beauty of such bowls, so I continue to hunt for more...
Just my thoughts,
Jeremy
Hey Todd,
I meant to include that mine is copying the very earliest wares from Korea(14th-15th century), before Japanese management of the export (mid 17th century into the early 18th), it is interestingly similar to this bowl, Seto or Mino which is a Japanese version of a copy of such wares (early 16th century), though quite a bit earlier than mine.
Yes, boils! I thought that was funny too. (Well, maybe "funny" is not the best description...)
But, in the end, a story like that only adds to the legend of the bowl. I wonder what disease/affliction it actually was. If it was mentioned in my readings, it escapes me now.
I've found a bowl in Totoya-style...but still trying to figure it out. I'll take some pics and post it soon.
The Smithsonian object is indeed similar to your's. I'm glad you've sorted out exactly where your bowl fits in. Not an easy task.
Todd
take it with a grain of salt
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