Tea pot for Western style tea brewing; made for the export or for a Japanese home serving Western-style tea. Japanese were less inclined to make comprehensive tea sets for the home market, but sets of teapot, creamer and sugar bowl were not uncommon. This tea pot might have been part of such a set.
Fine and light-colored stoneware. On the body in underglaze iron black sketches of curtains and drying fruits and flowers. Covered in whitish, translucent glaze with very fine crackle. From the top running down the typical green glaze has been applied, that turns blue along the lower edges of the glaze, on the handle and on the spout. Inside whitish translucent glaze with fine crackle, clearly visible through the use over the decades. The lid decorated with diamonds and a flower.
Stamped in bottom with an oval, illegible seal
Japan, Seto store region, Oribe style, 1930s/pre-war.
H 4.5 in. x W 8 in. Diam. at belly 5 in.
Traces of usage: Among others frittings on spout, handle broken and unprofessionally glued black (this means that you CANNOT lift the tea pot by its handle while filled with tea), chip on foot ring, tiny chip and short thin crack at edge of cover, two tiny chips at the knob of the cover.
Detailed images of the damages are available upon request
Product code: Vintage stoneware tea pot, Oribe ware, green glaze, plant store motifs, Japan