Title
White glaze jar with sgraffito (scratched) decoration
circa 1950
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- White flanged vase
- Alternative title
- Shiro-geshô senchô tsubo
- 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
- 35.0 x 17.5 cm
- Signature & date
Artist's seal on base, in Japanese, impressed "Hikaru". Not dated.
Signed lid [associated NWA box], in Japanese, ink [inscribed] "Hikaru zô [made by Hikaru]" [and artist's seal]. Not dated.- Credit
- Gift of Norman Sparnon 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 423.1988
- Artist information
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Yamada Hikaru
Works in the collection
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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. He participated in various exhibitions, including those of the Japan Ceramic Associaton and the Tokyo and Kyoto Museums of Modern Art.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Norman Sparnon Retrospective, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, Sydney, 23 Jun 1994–10 Jul 1994
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
Pure form: Japanese sculptural ceramics, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 21 May 2022–06 Nov 2022
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Russell Kelty, Pure form: Japanese sculptural cermamics, Adelaide, 2022, 29 (colour illus.); 197 (colour illus.).
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