型吹き青緑色葡萄文蓋付碗かたぶきあおみどりいろぶどうもんふたつきわん

  • 江戸時代(1711-1781)
型吹き青緑色葡萄文蓋付碗

 棚に葡萄がたわわに実る葡萄文を浮き出させた蓋付碗である。江戸時代には甲州葡萄が名物で、江戸で売られたとの記録があるが、葡萄にはエキゾチックで高級なイメージがあったのだろう。古様を感じさせる風格のある造形で、ガラス素材が広く普及する以前の什器の様式を伝える。口は平磨りではなく、手の込んだ研磨仕上げが口縁に見られる。

Blue-green lidded bowl with grape design, mold-blown

This lidded bowl is decorated with a raised relief pattern of grapes and vines growing heavily on an arbor. The grapes of Koshu province (present-day Yamanashi prefecture) were famous during the Edo period, and records show they were sold in Edo and enjoyed a reputation as an expensive and exotic fruit. The shape is elegant in the old style, a good example of what glass works were like in the era before glass became a common material. The rim is finished with careful polishing.