Rimpa school bowl

Rimpa school pottery bowl (hachi) with stylized, brown day lily drawn with a free hand over classic oribe tan crackle glaze and thick, dark green-dripped overglaze.  The potted bowl  becomes a canvas for calligraphy ("unexplored region"), landscape, and abstract painting as influenced by the innovative Kyoto artist Ogata Kenzan (1663 - 1743).  6” (15 cm) diameter fluted rim.  2-1/4” (5.6 cm) high. Late Meiji 琳派乾山風鉢