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Tea bowl with tortoise-shell design
Japanese
Edo period
17th century
Object Place: Owari
Medium/Technique
Shino type; stoneware with iron wash and feldspathic glaze
Dimensions
7 x 11.5 (mouth diameter) cm (2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Morse Collection. Gift of William Sturgis Bigelow
Accession Number95.1305
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ProvenancePurchased by Edward Sylvester Morse in Japan between 1877 and 1892. Deposited to the MFA in 1892.