乾山銹絵染付松図茶碗

銹絵染付松図茶碗 美し 乾山 四季彩菜 図録解説
　やや大振りの碗で、素地の厚みや高台の様子から、これこそまさに食器の碗が茶碗に転用されたものといえます。もともとは蓋付碗であったかも知れません。高台畳付と高台内を残して白化粧掛けして下地を作り、外側に銹絵で松の幹を、染付で松葉を描いています。口縁には銹絵で口紅が施され、土見せの高台内には銹絵で乾山銘が記されています。白化粧の下地や透明釉に生じた細かな貫入、意匠化された松の絵付けが、全体に柔らかい空気感を醸しています。

Tea Bowl with Pine Trees Design
This rather large bowl was probably, given the thickness of the clay body and the shape of the foot, a bowl for serving food later converted to use as a tea bowl. It may originally have had a lid. White slip was applied, except to the bottom and in the inside of the foot. On that ground, pine tree trunks and branches were painted in underglaze iron and pine needles in underglaze cobalt. The rim has been edged in underglaze iron, and the Kenzan signature is written, also in underglaze iron, inside the foot. The fine crackles that have developed in the slip and the transparent glaze combine with the stylized pine tree design to give this bowl a rather tender ambience.