Three Japanese Tea Ceremony Items

Includes a hut shaped incense container (kogo), 20th century, stoneware, Bizen ware, with two Japanese characters incised to the underside (2 1/8 x 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 in.)(nick to interior rim), a ladle rest (futaoki, 20th century, stoneware, Bizen ware, with monk climbing on the side (2 3/8 x 2 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.), and a 19th century, and a water dropper (suiteki) shaped as a lion, stoneware (2 1/8 x 3 3/8 x 1 5/8 in.)

Sold to benefit the Yale University Art Gallery collection From the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery