Miniature Chado Tea Set with ceramic brazier and containers, bamboo vase backdrop, lacquered serving pieces, bamboo utensils, silk cloth. A - F: Ceramic brazier with dark brown glaze. A: Brazier bottom, H: 2", Dia: 3.25", round ceramic bowl shape with three squat legs on the bottom. Brazier has a U - shaped opening on one side and the interior is unglazed. B: Ceramic water kettle.H: 1.875", Dia: 2.75", Round shape which narrows towards the top. On each side are loop downturned handles. The bottom and interior rim are unglazed. On one side is a gold sticker pinted in black in kanji and "Kyoto". The kettle is intended to sit on the ceramic trivet inside the brazier. C: Ceramic kettle lid, Dia: 1.75", curved top has a knob for a handle. The underside has a ridge which fits into the top of the kettle, the underside is unglazed. D: Water pot, H: 1", Dia: 1.5", bowl shaped bottom narrowing neck flairing out at the top. The brown glaze onone side is covered with beige and mottled decoration. Unglazed bottom. E: Tea Bowl, chawan, H: .5", Dia: 1.5", flaired bowl shaped with a pedistal bottom, the interior center of the bowl has a raised spiral shape covering the brown glaze on the interior is circular shaped mottled white beige and blue decoration. The foot is unglazed. F: Ceramic trivet, H: 1", Dia: 2", ring shaped with three legs and feet which point inwards. The trivet sits inside the ceramic brazier and acts as a stand for the kettle. G - J: Ceramic tea vessels with white glaze and green accents. G: Water jar, H: 2", Dia: 1.75", upright sides which are slightly wider at the bottom. And are encircled with ridges. A flange encircles the pot just below the rim. This acts as a rest fot the lid and is unglazed. On one side of the pot a green glazed triangular shaped accent has a brown mesh design outline in a wide brown band. H: Water jar lid, Dia: 1.375", concentric circles in the center dip down in the middle of the lid. A handle is formed into a loop shape with an attached piece of cord. A green glazed accent crosses over the handle. I: Water Scoop holder, H: 2", Dia: 1", vase shaped holder has a round bulbous bottom and a long narrow neck. A green glaze accent runs around the neck of the container, the bottom is unglazed. J: Tea bowl, Chawan, H: 1", Dia: 1.25", the upright sides are narrower in the center, pedistal bottom is unglazed. The interior theer is a raised spiral in the center bottom. On the outside there is a brwn motif and green accent similar to the water jar G. K: Backdrop with attached vase. H: 2.875", W: 4.25", D: .25". Black lacquered rectangular piece of wood. Has a small sectionof bamboo attached to it at the upper left. The bamboo is hollow and has a diagonal shape cut out in the front presumably a holder for the cha bana flower arraingement. L: Miniature tray with sweets, 1.5" X 1.125", the tray is in the shape of a rectangle with upturned ends. And a square shaped pedistal on the bottom painted with red lacquer. Glued to the top are three Japanese sweets. One pink ball shaped sweet, Mochi, One purplish oblong sweet, maybe red bean pastry, and a green sweet wrapped around a red center. Besides the sweets is a bamboo pick used as eating utensil. M & N: Tea Caddy, Natsume, with lid, H: .75", Dia: .5", carved indark wood the bottom has a recessed rim and a hollow interior the lid is round with straight side which fits over the rim on the bottom. O: Water Scoop, L: 4", tiny replica of a water scoop has a bowl made from a cross section of bamboo and a finley carved handle inserted into the bowl. A bamboo node in teh center of the handle acts as decoration. P: Tea Scoop, chashaku, L: 1.625", tiny replica of a tea scoop made from bamboo curved up at one end. Has a bamboo node in the middle acting as a decoration. Q: wiping cloth fukusa, 1.75" square, made of red ribbed silk. The cloth is double and sewn around three edges.

1998.054.016