Lidded bowl for sweets (kashibashi). Oribe. Mino area, Owari province. Edo period Irregular shape on a very flat, round foot ring and with rounded square mouth and flat lid with strap handle. Entirely covered with light brown glaze and dark green overflow glaze spots and decorated with iron-brown pattern and white glaze with water wheels, stylized plum blossoms on the lid and ferns, circular and rectangular pattern on the wall. Old, damaged wooden box. H 11.1 cm; W 15.5 cm

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