Physical Object / Teabowl for thin tea

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Title: Teabowl for thin tea
Contributing Institution: California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection: Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
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Description: Teabowl (chawan) for thin tea, with a wide and shallow shape that allows the tea to cool more quickly in the summertime. A Chinese bell flower, also called balloon flower or kikkyo, is painted on the bowl. This motif appears from mid-summer into the lingering heat of the autumn.
Type: physical object
Format: 2 1/4"h x 6 1/4" dia
Ceramic
Identifier: 2005.05.0124
54
Mizuya
655.cpd
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/teaware/id/654
Subject: Chawan
Japanese tea ceremony
Drinking vessels
Relation: Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection

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