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Ewer (Suichū)

織部手付水注

early 1600s

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Japan, Momoyama period

(1573-1615)

Glazed stoneware with iron oxide underglaze slip (Mino ware, Oribe type)

Diameter of mouth: 12.7 cm (5 in.); Container: 21 cm (8 1/4 in.)

The Norweb Collection 1958.336

Location

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Oribe wares are named for the tea master Furuta Oribe, who initiated the flamboyant designs that characterize them.

Description

This ewer was made to replenish the jar that holds water for rinsing teabowls and filling the iron kettle at tea gatherings. Highly abstracted pine trees, cascading ivy, stripes, and grids make up the designs in underglaze iron oxide, while the overall surface alternates between a transparent glaze and a green glaze characteristic of some Oribe tea wares.

Provenance

?–1958

(Hollis & Company, Cleveland, OH, sold to Mrs. R. Henry Norweb as a gift for the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1958

Mrs. R. Henry [Emery May Holden] Norweb [1895–1984], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1958–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Tokyo: Makoto Nakao, 1962. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 54, p. 54 archive.org

Lee, Sherman E. A History of Far Eastern Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1964. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 495, fig. 652

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 281 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 281 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 379 archive.org

Cunningham, Michael R. The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th-Century Art in Japan. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1991. Reproduced: p. 134

Takeuchi, Junʼichi 竹内順一, and Dean Robson. Oribe, iwayuru Oribeizumu ni tsuite: Gifuken Bijutsukan kaikan 15-shūnen kinenten [織部, いわゆるオリベイズムについて : 岐阜県美術館開館 15周年記念 = Oribe, (re)searching "Oribeism" : special exhibition for the 15th anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu]. Gifu-shi: Gifu-ken Bijutsukan, 1997. Reproduced: p. 148, cat. no. 119

Exhibition history

Japanese Decorative Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art (August 30-October 15, 1961); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 9-December 17, 1961).

Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988).

The Triumph of Japanese Style: 16th Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19-December 1, 1991).

ORIBE: Researching "Oribeism". Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu (organizer) (October 1-December 20, 1997).

Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 21, 2003-January 11, 2004).

Rinpa (琳派) (Japanese gallery rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-October 3, 2021).

Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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織部手付水注

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