Live Auction 12020Aesthetic Intuition: Collecting Japanese Art in Post-War London
A Negoro Tenmokudai [Stand for a Tenmoku Teabowl]
Lot 74 Various Properties

A Negoro Tenmokudai [Stand for a Tenmoku Teabowl]

Muromachi period (15th century)

Closed11 November 2015

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GBP 8,750

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A Negoro Tenmokudai [Stand for a Tenmoku Teabowl]
Muromachi period (15th century)
Of turned and assembled wood, with a cup-shaped support with rounded sides and everted foot, the red lacquer surface worn in places revealing the black lacquer beneath, black lacquer rim
17cm. diam.

Specialist note

For other examples and more information about tenmokudai, see:
Miho Museum and Kawada Sadamu ed., Shuurushi Negoro Chusei ni saita hana [Negoro: Efflorescence of Medieval Japanese Lacquerware], (Tokyo, 2013), p.284-89 and 361
Kawada Sadamu, Negoro Lacquer, (Kyoto, 1985), p.214-220 and p.328-329