Oribe pottery 織部焼

It is a type of Mino ware. Oribe ware is a type of Japanese pottery most identifiable for its use of green copper glaze, mat black and bold painted designs. It was the first use of colored stoneware glaze by Japanese potters. It takes its name from tea master Furuta Oribe (1544-1615).Oribe ware has quite strange shapes. It was an innovative style at the time. It is said that the strange styles were made under Oribe’s direction. He was pupil of Sen no Rikyu, Japans’s most famous Tea Ceremony artist. In the Momoyama period, Rikyu was serving under ruler Toyotomi