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Bowl: C.318-2016

Object information

Awaiting location update

Maker(s)

Potter: Hirai, Akiko

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Description

Hemispherical footed stoneware bowl, with thin 'ribs' up opposite sides. Matt white glaze outside, with some 'pinholes', more shiny but still rough, white inside. A long tailed lizard in relief appears on the foot

Notes

History note: Bought by Shakeshaft from an Oxford Ceramics Fair, 27th October 2007

Legal notes

Bequeathed by John Shakeshaft

Measurements and weight

Height: 6.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2016) by Shakeshaft, John, Dr

Dating

21st Century
After 2000 CE - Before 2007-10 CE

Note

Akiko Hirai (b.1970) was born in Shizuoka, Japan and attended Aichi Gakuin University before moving to the UK in 1999. She studied ceramics at the University of Westminster and Central St Martins and has taught at Kensington & Chelsea College. She opened her own studio in the Chocolate Factory, Stoke Newington, in 2003. She works particularly with the moon jar form, attracted by the Korean jar owned by Bernard Leach and Lucie Rie in which she found a reflection of the irregularities of landscape in its seeming imperfections and was inspired by the way it wore its past. Hirai throws and coils her pots, pushing the clay to its limit ‘to reach the moment before collapse’, seeking ‘something ambiguous, unsettled and imaginative’.

Components of the work

At Widest Point Diameter 12.3 cm
At Base Diameter 5.5 cm

Materials used in production

matt Glaze
Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Glazing
Relief

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.318-2016
Primary reference Number: 207964
Sale catalogue photo number: K198
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 28 January 2016 Updated: Wednesday 19 February 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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