1991.23: Tea Bowl
Vessels
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1991.23
- People
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Nishikawa Minoru, Japanese (Kyoto, Japan born 1929)
- Title
- Tea Bowl
- Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- circa 1990
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Heisei era, 1989-2019
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/201369
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Jun-type ware: light gray stoneware with light blue glaze enlivened with bluish-purple splashes; with circular seal reading "Minoru" impressed into the wall of the foot-ring before firing
- Dimensions
- H. 5.9 x Diam. 12.1 cm (2 5/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: circular seal: Minoru, on wall above footring
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Minoru Nishikawa
- Accession Year
- 1991
- Object Number
- 1991.23
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Tradition and Synthesis: 19th- and 20th-Century Works from East Asia, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/22/2001 - 06/09/2002
Verification Level
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