Jar
Original Language Title昭和時代 濱田庄司 黒釉錆流描壺
Artist
Shōji Hamada
(Japanese, 1894 - 1978)
Date1961-1964
MediumGlazed stoneware
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 inches (26.04 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr.
Object number81-27/23
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DescriptionHeavily potted grey stoneware thrown to a bulging ovoid shape with shoulder and mouth portion separately throne and luted on; heavy contracting mouth; thick bubbly treacle glaze decorated with splashes of medium brown about the shoulder and body; area just above foot covered with thinner medium-brown glaze.ProvenanceWith Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr., Shawnee Mission, KS, by 1981;
Bequeathed by Mrs. George H. Bunting Jr. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 353.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), no. 81, 403.Copyright© Shōji Hamada Estate
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