Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)
Lot 94

Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)

CIRCA 1960

Closed7 November 2012

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GBP 2,250

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Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)
Circa 1960
The stoneware press-moulded bottle vase with dripped tenmoku and muka glazes falling short of the foot and forming an intermediary colour where they overlap
22.7cm. high

Specialist note

The two paper labels to the base indicate that this piece was sent from Japan for exhibition in London, probably at the Crafts Centre of Great Britain in 1963 or Henry Rothschild's Primavera Gallery.

For a similar example see Tony Birks, Bernard Leach, Hamada & Their Circle: From the Wingfield Digby Collection, (London, 1992), no.108, p.106. For similarly glazed examples see Bernard Leach, Hamada: Potter, (London, 1976), pl.6 and 48.