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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Date
- mid 1990s
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware, 'tenmoku' with finger wipe design, ash glaze interior and rim
- Dimensions
- 8.5 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Marea Gazzard 2006
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 96.2006
- Copyright
- © Estate of Hamada Shoji
- Artist information
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Hamada Shōji
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About
Hamada Shōji started studying ceramics at the Tokyo Technical College and then went to work as a glaze technician at the Kyoto Ceramic Institute. 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. He returned to Japan in 1923 and established a workshop at Mashiko, north of Tokyo. Hamada went on to become a major figure of the Nihon Mingei (Japanese folk art) movement and had significant international influence on 20th-century studio pottery. Inspired by the writing of aesthetic theorist Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961) and championed by Hamada and his friend Bernard Leach, the Mingei movement claimed that beauty was most evident in everyday objects made by craftspeople, achieved through their care and design constraint. In 1955 Hamada was designated a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Open Studio (brick vase clay cup jug), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 01 Jul 2023–07 Jan 2024
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Provenance
Marea Gazzard, 1956-2008, London/England, purchased in London in 1956 or 1957. Donated to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, May 2006.