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Black Raku ware tea bowl named Minogame (Mossy-tailed tortoise)
Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637)
1605-1637
- Medium
- Earthenware with black raku glaze
- Classification
- Vessels (containers)
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 8.7 × 12.5 cm (3 7/16 × 4 15/16 in)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Tea-bowl of cylindrical shape, flat cut rim, named Mino-game (long-tailed tortoise).
