Saturday, December 09, 2006

Crows


(Japanese, from the Asia Society)
An approx. 400 year old tea jar. Fantastic. The little lugs on top would be used for cords that would tie on a lid, perhaps made of wood.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

that really is fantastic.

Anonymous said...

Simple, I think, but deceptively so, because of the skill. I guess the Rockefeller family owned it, and it is probably priceless.

Anonymous said...

items that are both beautiful and useful/practical make them so muc more endearing to moi. very nice :)