Rimpa school bowl

Description

Rimpa school pottery bowl (hachi)with stylized, brown day lily drawn with a free hand over classic oribe tan crackle glaze and thick, dark green-dripped overglaze. The potted bowl becomes a canvas for calligraphy (“unexplored region”), landscape, and abstract painting as influenced by the innovative Kyoto artist Ogata Kenzan (1663 – 1743). 6” (15 cm) diameter fluted rim. 2-1/4” (5.6 cm) high.Late Meiji