Vintage Japanese Stoneware Boat-Form Centerpiece Bowl Tenmoku-Style Glaze 14" Itomasu Type: Tenmoku (天目) – oil-spot

Type: Tenmoku (天目) – oil-spot style with iridescent crystallization

This figure presents strongly from all angles

Height = 15”

This is a Japanese antique late Edo Era (1850) Japanese suzuribako

Vintage Japanese Stoneware Boat-Form Centerpiece Bowl Tenmoku-Style Glaze 14" Itomasu Type: Tenmoku (天目) – oil-spotJapanese Stoneware Boat Form Centerpiece Bowl, Tenmoku Style Glaze Japan, 20th century Dimensions: 3. 75" H 5. 5" W 14. 5" L (10 cm H 14 cm W 37 cm L) An elongated boat form (funagata, ) ceramic stoneware, covered in a rich oil spot tenmoku glaze () the dark iron saturated ground animated throughout by a dense constellation of silvery cream circular spots, each ringed in russet brown, where iron oxide has separated and crystallized during the firing.