BB3: Vintage Japanese Tea Bowl, Seto Ware, Tenmoku glaze

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BB3: Vintage Japanese Tea Bowl, Seto Ware, Tenmoku glaze We can ship WORLDWIDE !!! The shipping cost discount for multiple purchases (In case of Registed SAL shipment) : 2-5 items : 30% Discount 6-10 items : 35% Discount 11 and more items : 40% Discount ITEM DISCRIPTION Item Vintage Japanese Tea Bowl, Seto Ware, Dark brown and black glazes Condition As shown in the pictures, it's very good condition. No chips, no cracks. Size Dia. max. 4.1"(10.5 cm) x 3.1"(7.9 cm) Description of item This is a vintage tea bowl of Japanese Seto Ware, which was made about 20-30 years ago. Light brown pottery is coated with Tenmoku glazes. Seto ware is the pottery made in Seto city and nearby areas of modern Aichi prefecture. The Seto area was the center of pottery manufacture in the Kamakura period; Ko-seto (old seto) designates pieces made at this time. At the end of the Muromachi period the center of the pottery manufacture moved to nearby Mino. At that time, wares made in the area from Seto to Mino were called setoyaki. In the early Edo period, some pottery manufacture moved back to Seto. In 1822, Kato Tamikichi (1722-1824) introduced sometsuke jiki (blue-and-white porcelain; see *sometsuke) from Arita in modern Saga prefecture, and this porcelain, called shinsei (new production) rather than the original Seto ware pottery, hongyou became standard. In the Meiji period, Seto ware adapted Western techniques, gaining great popularity. In addition to plain seto, the Mino kilns also produced several types of Seto wares from the mid-16th century, including Seto-guro (black seto), and Ki-seto (yellow seto). Kiseto, fired at the same kilns as Shino and setoguro wares during the Momoyama period, featured "fried bean-curd" glaze, Aburagede developed in emulation of Chinese celadons. It utilizes an iron-rich wood-ash glaze and is reduction fired at a high temperature to produce a celadon-like texture and bone color; in an oxygen-rich kiln, the minerals in the clay and glaze create a distinctive opaque yellow glaze. Motifs are etched in the clay, then highlighted in green. Typical shapes, glazes and decoration all reflect functions in the tea ceremony or kaiseki meal. Setoguro wares were made by removing a black-glazed stoneware vessel directly from a hot kiln at the point of glaze maturation, and allowing it to cool in the open air. The sudden temperature change turned the thick glaze a deep glossy black. SHIPPING COST Area EMS Registered SAL Registered Airmail USA, CANADA, OCEANIA, MIDDLE EAST US$20.4 US$13.8 - EUROPE US$24.0 US$13.8 - ASIA (Except Taiwan, Korea) US$15.2 US$11.2 - Taiwan, Korea US$15.2 Not available US$15.2 AFRICA, SOUTH AMERICA US$31.2 US$16.4 - Insurance & Tracking service Included Included - Registered SAL shipment servise is not available for parcels to Taiwan, Korea, Romania and a little some other countries. In case the total weight is over 2kg, Economy SAL packets are divided into some parcels, due to the weight limitation of SAL, 2kg/packet. ABOUT SHIPPING Tracking service Insurance service Delivery time EMS Included Full coverage Normall 3-7 days Registerd SAL Included Max. JP YEN 6000 Nomally 2 or 3 weeks (But it rarely takes more than 1 month.) Registered Airmail Included Max. JP YEN 6000 Normall 1 - 2 weeks EMS is the most recommended delivery method, because it's the fastest and the safest way. The delively status can be checked by a tracking number, and if a parcel is lost or broken on its way to the destination, the insurance can fully compensate for it. Registered SAL is a shipping method with reasonable cost. A tracking number is added for each parcel. The insuranc... read more

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