DepartmentUnited States & Canada
Shallow Tenmoku bowl
NameBowl
Maker
Taeko Tanaka
(Japanese American, 1929 - 2019)
CultureJapanese American
DateMid-1980s
Place madeMinnesota, United States, North America
MediumCeramic, tenmoku glaze.
Dimensions2 3/16 × 13 × 13 in. (5.5 × 33 × 33 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Karen F. Beall and Dale K. Haworth, A.2016.51.
Object numberA.2016.51.4
DescriptionShallow bowl, or dish, with a pattern in dark brown and black. Pattern is made up of a grid of brown sqaures seperated by black lines. In the squares, is possibly a plant motif in black. Glossy.
Artist Not Recorded
First half of 18th century
mid-20th century