Title
Vase with linear geometric decoration
circa 1950
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- (Vase)
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Shōwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Date
- circa 1950
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware
- Dimensions
- 30.0 x 12.3 x 8.9 cm
- Signature & date
Artist's seal on base, in Japanese, impressed "Hikaru". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Norman Sparnon 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 422.1988
- Artist information
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Yamada Hikaru
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About
Born in 1924 in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Yamada Hikaru studied ceramics at Kyoto Technological High School (1943-45), intending to assist his father who was a ceramicist and Buddhist priest. In 1948 Yamada joined the Shinshōkōgeikai and in the same year became a founding member, along with Kazuo Yagi and Osamu Suzuki, of the avant-garde Sodeisha (Crawling through Mud) group. In the 1950s he lost interest in the Chinese Song dynasty-style ceramics that had previously fascinated him, becoming interested instead in two-dimensional sculptural forms.
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Where the work was made
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