Object type: Teabowl
Department: Asian Art
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist: Sonyu
Artist bio: Japanese, died 1725
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Japanese
Date: ca. 1710
Medium: Cylindrical with small foot; coarse pottery, pitted; dark gray glaze almost covered with light red overglaze, crackled; one side with incised decoration; mended with red lacquer (Raku ware)
Dimensions: H. 3 1/3 in. (8.5 cm); Diam. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936
Accession year: 1936