AN ORIBE-GURO CHAWAN (TEA BOWL) Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century The vessel in a kutsugata (shoe-shape) form, almost entirely coated in an iron-oxide black glaze, several shallow horizontal ridges on the exterior, the rim uneven, the foot ring unglazed and circular; with a tomobako (wood storage box) inscribed Oribe-guro in lacquer 3 3/8 x 6in (8.5 x 15.3cm) at widest Footnotes: There are two types of Oribe ware that have iron-oxide black glaze. One has additional reserved white ground and is known as Kuro Oribe (Black Oribe), while Oribe ware that is entirely glaze black is known as Oribe-guro (Oribe black), the latter type of which being the present lot. For more information on Oribe ware, see Miyeko Murase, ed. and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing