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Tea ceremony bowl
12017-04-28T07:09:03-07:00Ana Drinovanaa7464d947287799e70e60041b3dd733413ebbe0156222Tokugawa era, late 18th century. Ceramic. Mead Art Museum at Amherst College. The white used to make this vessel for the tea ceremony, lacking in hue, confers a gravity to the piece that is shared by the sacred white of Shinto--but beyond this, the importance of the white used here is to be found in its humble quality. No colors flash to catch the eye, and this is an ideal feature of a tea bowl: so unobtrusive as to emphasize the value of the moment of tea-drinking rather than the expense lavished on the vessels involved.plain2017-04-29T12:53:36-07:002012073115114320120731151143Ana Drinovanaa7464d947287799e70e60041b3dd733413ebbe0