Item - Blossom jar

ID UNSW CE 2004/0913 (100101)
Artist Shoji HAMADA (1894 - 1978)
Title Blossom jar
Alternate Titles
Category Ceramic
Medium stoneware
Materials stoneware, glaze, oxide
Edition Number
Measurements (cms)  
  Height 19.00
  Width 12.00
  Depth 9.00
  Other
Marks/Inscriptions  
  Location nil
  Signed no
Produced  
  When 1968
  Where Australia, NSW, Kensington, UNSW
Style Sino-Japanese
Subject vessel
Credit Line Former collection of UNSW Dept. of Industrial Arts; acquired from the Faculty of the Built Environment, 1997
Description/Remarks    Thrown and paddled stoneware blossom jar has flat foot, eliptical body, wide neck and rounded lip; alternating glazes of milky white and brown lustre over each "corner"; beneath the milky glazed sections is a brush- painted floral motif in manganese oxide.
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