Title
Square jar with white ash glaze
circa 1964
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 1964
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware
- Dimensions
- 11.2 cm diam. of rim; 20.3 x 16.8 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1965
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- EC6.1965
- Copyright
- © Estate of Hamada Shoji
- Artist information
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Hamada Shōji
Works in the collection
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About
The Mingei movement was a Western-inspired craft movement, distinguished by its appreciation of, and inspiration from, European and Japanese folk crafts. Its most representative artist is perhaps Hamada Shôji. In 1920 Hamada accompanied the British potter Bernard Leach (who had studied pottery in Japan) to England. After Hamada returned to Japan in 1924, the two potters kept in touch, visiting and holding exhibitions together. Their works were largely inspired by English slipware and other folk pottery, and were given a theoretical support by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), a religious philosopher who claimed that the supreme beauty of craft was found in pieces made by anonymous craftspeople for use by ordinary people. The theory, rather ironically promoted by works of prominent artists such as Hamada and Leach (who published Yanagi's theory under the title 'The unknown craftsman'), was embraced by many craftspeople. In Japan, the style has been continued by potters such as Kawai Takeichi and Shimaoka Tatsuzô.
'The Mingei Style', The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.268.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
Ceramics by Hamada (9), David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 23 Apr 1965–23 Apr 1965
Title unknown, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, 02 May 1973–27 May 1973
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 268 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 1960s, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, purchased from the exhibion 'Ceramics by Hamada', lot 9. at David Jones Art Gallery, by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.