Vintage Japanese Tenmoku Chawan Tea Ceremony Bowl Ceramic 5.75" w/ Kiri Wood Box Lamp It shows the great samurai

It shows the great samurai Kobayashi Heihachirou fending off a group of ronin

Provenance: From the collection of Leonard Sorese

The blossoms are highlighted in gilt

This exquisite piece of 100+ year old antique Japanese hand woven cotton fabric features a stencil dyed cotton 3 panel fabric created using the traditional katazome dyeing technique

The flat brass lid is surmounted by a finely cast four-petal flower-form silver-metal finial with smooth budded cap and amber glass bead — a distinctive workshop element shared across a related group of tetsubin

Vintage Japanese Tenmoku Chawan Tea Ceremony Bowl Ceramic 5.75" w/ Kiri Wood Box Lamp It shows the great samuraiThis is a Vintage Japanese hand thrown Tenmoku chawan. Height: 2. 5" Diameter: 5. 75" Seasonal Use: Summer (shallow and wide mouthed) Type: Tenmoku () oil spot style with iridescent crystallization Kiln: Unknown Clay: White porcelain clay Glaze: Iron rich glaze with crystalline oil spot (yuteki) effects; fired in reduction, yielding a dark base with a radiant band of gold and silver crystalline bursts. The fine iridescence and pitted surface suggest a