Tea bowl with tortoise-shell design
17th century
Object PlaceOwari
Medium/TechniqueShino type; stoneware with iron wash and feldspathic glaze
Dimensions7 x 11.5 (mouth diameter) cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit LineMorse Collection. Gift of William Sturgis Bigelow
Accession number95.1305
On View
Not on viewClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenancePurchased by Edward Sylvester Morse in Japan between 1877 and 1892. Deposited to the MFA in 1892.
17th century
16th–17th centuries
17th century
17th century
17th century
second half of the 19th century
1568–1615
17th century
17th century
17th century