Title
Rectangular bottle-vase with iron glaze
pre 1954
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Date
- pre 1954
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware, press moulded and cut
- Dimensions
- 22.5 x 15.3 x 8.0 cm
- Signature & date
Signed box
- Credit
- Bequest of Patricia Englund 2005
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 173.2005
- Copyright
- © Estate of Hamada Shoji
- Artist information
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Hamada Shōji
Works in the collection
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About
Hamada Shoji started studying ceramics at the Tokyo Technical College and then went to work as a glaze technician at the Kyoto Ceramic Institute, where he conducted thousands of experiments. In 1918 he befriended the English potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979) and two years later he accompanied Leach to Britain to help him build a Japanese-style kiln at St Ives in Cornwall. Their works were largely inspired by English slipware. He returned to Japan in 1923 and established a workshop at Mashiko, north of Tokyo. In 1955 he was designated a Living National Treasure. Hamada visited Australia in 1965.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, June 2005.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Beyond Words: Calligraphic Traditions of Asia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Aug 2016–30 Apr 2017
