This #MuseumTeaTime is flying in hot! 🍵
Brightly colored and embellished with glittering gold and silver details, this tea bowl is decorated with motifs of the rising sun and auspicious cranes in celebration of the New Year. With this decoration, Eiraku Hozen—a prominent ceramist during the late #Edo period—revived the style of Nonomura Ninsei, the most well-known potter of late 17th-century Kyoto.
🎨 Eiraku Hozen (Japanese, 1795–1854). Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane, mid-19th century. #MetAnywhere
[Image description: A cream-colored tea bowl with a large crane flying within a red circle at its center. Gold and silver organic embellishments fill the circle and extend outwards around the cup.]
