Lot 287 D α

A Kuro-Oribe chawan. Mino area, Owari province. Edo period

Of irregular shape (kutsugata) with horizontal grooves, painted in white glaze with small squares and a larger area filled with black stripe-and-flower design, inside a black glaze also covering the rim and running down the outside wall. Wooden box, the lid inscribed in silverish black lacquer Kuro-Oribe.
Height 8.1 cm; width 13.8 cm