Moriyama Kankei 森山歓渓
Ko Shino tea caddy
Stoneware
H3 1/8 × Dia 2 in.
H8 × Dia 5 cm
H8 × Dia 5 cm
With signed wood box
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This Shino tea caddy was created by Moriyama Kankei (森山歓渓, 1888–1955), a ceramicist known for his expertise in Mino-yaki, particularly Shino ware during the Meiji period. This stoneware tea caddy...
This Shino tea caddy was created by Moriyama Kankei (森山歓渓, 1888–1955), a ceramicist known for his expertise in Mino-yaki, particularly Shino ware during the Meiji period.
This stoneware tea caddy features a delicately painted landscape of pine trees in Iron underglaze over a feldspar-rich Shino glaze, evoking the naturalistic and poetic aesthetics of the tea ceremony. The caddy is paired with a silk shifuku, a kinran (金襴) brocade pouch adorned with an intricate grass and flower pattern (this pattern is known as sōka-mon, 草花紋). Kiribako comes with an accompanying brown tassel.