Vintage Japanese Stoneware Boat-Form Centerpiece Bowl Tenmoku-Style Glaze 14" Itomasu Condition: Consistent with age and

Condition: Consistent with age and working use

Height = 15”

lending this piece both decorative and iconographic interest

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Smith (mei): 平安城藤原守国 (Heianjō Fujiwara Morikuni)

Vintage Japanese Stoneware Boat-Form Centerpiece Bowl Tenmoku-Style Glaze 14" Itomasu Condition: Consistent with age andJapanese Stoneware Boat Form Centerpiece Bowl, Tenmoku Style Glaze Japan, 20th century Dimensions: 3. 75" H 5. 5" W 14. 5" L (10 cm H 14 cm W 37 cm L) An elongated boat form (funagata, ) ceramic stoneware, covered in a rich oil spot tenmoku glaze () the dark iron saturated ground animated throughout by a dense constellation of silvery cream circular spots, each ringed in russet brown, where iron oxide has separated and crystallized during the firing.