The Burke Collection
“Iron Mallet” (Tettsui, 鉄槌) tea bowl
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654-2

Catalogue information

Momoyama period, 1580–90

Mino (美濃) ware, Seto Guro (瀬戸黒) type; stoneware with black glaze

H. 9 cm (3 1/2 in.), diam. 12 cm (4 3/4 in.)

Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015

Literature

Cort 1985, fig. 3
Cort, Louise Allison
1985
“Ceramics and the Tea Ceremony.” Apollo 121, no. 276 (February): 120–23.

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Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 97
Tokyo National Museum
1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.

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Avitabile 1990, no. 129
Avitabile, Gunhild
1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

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Murase 2000, no. 98
Murase, Miyeko
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Murase 2003, no. 20
Murase, Miyeko
2003
[Editor]. Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press.

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Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 50.
Tsuji Nobuo et al.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.

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