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A Large Imari Mizusashi for the Tea Ceremony – Edo browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Porcelain: Pre 1900: item # 956552 Please refer to our stock # ICHI 1123 when inquiring.
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This is a beautifully decorated Imari mizusashi - a container for cold water during the Japanese tea ceremony. The intricate design is executed in reds, oranges, blues and greens on a white ground, There are many lovely flowers – many with cobalt blue leaves – tiny paintings of birds and mythical creatures – and a number of hexagonal figures filled with flowers and birds. The entire composition is held together with meandering vines and limbs. The base is a band of dark blue lappets and the finial on the lid is a shell shaped piece with some gold highlighting. The piece stands 7 ½” high by 6 ½” diameter. It is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks – we date it to early 19th century, Edo period. A mizusashi (水指) is a lidded container for fresh cold water used by the host in the tea room during ceremonies. The water is mainly used to replenish the water in the kama at the end of certain ceremonies. Mizusashi are generally made of ceramic, but wooden and glass mizusashi are also used. If it is a ceramic mizusashi and has a matching lid of the same ceramic, the lid is referred to as a tomobuta or "matching lid." The mizusashi is one of the main objects in the aesthetic scheme of the objects the host selects for the particular occasion. Imari porcelain is the European collectors' name for Japanese porcelain wares made in the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyūshū, and exported from the port of Imari, Saga, specifically for the European export trade. In Japanese, these porcelains are known as Arita-yaki . The Ko-Imari and Iro-Nabeshima usually has these characteristics: •Blue coloring on a white background - - Grainy body of the porcelain - - Subject matter is plants - - White background . |
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