Japanese 1950S Signed Tea Ceremony Ceramic Summer Chawan Tea Bowl 5.5" Makie though typically created anonymously

though typically created anonymously

with the exception of a few signs of past use

This tsuba is made with typical forged steel and is in the shape of a marugata and has lotus leaves engraved around openwork

that were hand turned from cryptomeria wood with over twenty layers of black and red lacquer

one of the Seven Gods of Luck and inscribed with the characters for Kotobuki or good fortune

Japanese 1950S Signed Tea Ceremony Ceramic Summer Chawan Tea Bowl 5.5" Makie though typically created anonymouslyThis is a ceramic bowl known as a chawan (tea bowl) used in a Japanese chado (tea ceremony). It dates to the mid Showa Era (c. 1950) and has the signature on the bottom of the Japanese artist, Genno (see picture 6). Suitable more for the summer season, it is shallow styled chawan. This chawan measures 5 1 2" wide at its widest by 2" tall (14 x 5 cm). Having been in storage for 90 years it remains in fine condition.