永樂保全作　色絵日之出鶴文茶碗|Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane

Eiraku Hozen

mid-19th century · Stoneware with cream slip under a white slip and polychrome enamels, gold, and silver over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type) · Asian Art

Eiraku Hozen was a prominent ceramist during the late Edo period, a time when imperial temples and daimyo households started to commission wares from Kyoto potters. Brightly colored and embellished with glittering gold and silver details, the tea bowl is decorated with motifs of the rising sun and auspicious cranes in celebration of the New Year. With this decoration, Hozen revived the style of Nonomura Ninsei, the most well-known potter of late seventeenth-century Kyoto.

Artist

Eiraku Hozen

Date

mid-19th century

Medium

Stoneware with cream slip under a white slip and polychrome enamels, gold, and silver over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type)

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893