Potter: Hamada, Shoji
Stoneware, press-moulded with Tenmoku glaze, and iron-brown pours. Rectangular with flat shoulders and chimney-like neck with rectangular mouth, standing on a rectangular foot. The glaze stops at the foot which has a glazed area within it. The front and back are decorated with iron-brown ladle-pours of different shapes and lengths, and on each of the ends there is part of a stroke at the top.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by P.H.D.S. Wikramaratna in memory of this brother Professor P.H. Diananda
Depth: 9.3 cm
Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 15.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2007-11-19) by Wikramaratna, P. H. D. S.
20th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1950
CE
-
1970
CE
Cf. Bonhams, 7 November 2006, 20th Century Japanese and Korean Ceramics, p. 5, lot 1, a comparable retangular vase with pale brown glaze and splashes in nuka and dark brown. H. 22.80 am with box. Estimate £2-3,000; hammer price £3,800, total price £4,883.
Decoration
composed of
glaze
( Tenmoku)
iron
( brown)
All Except Foot
Inscription present: rectangular white paper strip stuck on with brown sicky tape
Inscription present: rectangular red paper label
Accession number: C.59-2007
Primary reference Number: 158292
Entry form: 976
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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