Red Raku Teabowl (Translation)
赤樂茶碗 二代小川長樂作 昭和 (Primary Title)
Ogawa Choraku II, Japanese, 1912 - 1991 (Artist)
This modern, low-fired tea bowl is named “Snow” for its glaze pattern, which displays a sense of movement in comparison to the static, monochrome tradition. The red-and-gray bowl bears a mark reading “Raku,” given to the Raku family by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a tea master and prominent warlord in 16th-century Japan.
Raku ware
Showa period (1926-1989)
長樂二代 Choraku II
Wooden box: 赤茶盞 長樂， 印： 長樂; 赤樂茶碗 二代小川長樂造 崛內宗完 （兼中齋）宗匠書
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment
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