Age approximately less than 30 years old. Excellent condition, two tiny spots of glaze loss that clearly occured in the forming. This is a wonderful winter teabowl with unusual and delightful glazing of colors including white, grayish blue, yellow, and even spots of lime green. Raku pottery has a long history in Japan and is best known as a pottery favoried by tea ceremony devotees. Raku is a soft, lightweight and thickly glazed pottery fired at a relatively low temperature.
Tea bowls are generally free formed by hand as to fit in the hands comfortably.
The top edge's soft and uneven shape is formed to suit to one's mouth for drinking. The footrim is unglazed. Obtained in Kyoto. Good condition, a hairline and a few glaze losses and very small nicks. The great Seto kilns were one of the six ancient kilns of Japan, famous for both their early ceramics and later for this kind of folk or common use pottery.