Rectangular bottle with drip glaze design
Hamada Shōji
Description
Hamada Sho ̄ji
Japan, 1894–1978
Rectangular bottle with drip glaze pattern
Sho ̄wa period (1926–89)
ca. 1967
Stoneware with iron and white glazes
Gift of Dr. Sho ̄ji Hamada, 1967/2.10
Hamada Sho ̄ji presented this bottle to UMMA when he received an honorary doctoral degree from the
University of Michigan in 1967. During his stay in Ann Arbor, he gave several demonstrations at the School
of Art; a film of one such demonstration shows the artist vigorously throwing pots at the age of seventy-three
before an awed audience.
Subject Matter:
Stoneware bottle
Physical Description:
This rectangular clay bottle has a speckled white glaze that seems to highlight the texture of the stoneware underneath. Three dripped, irregular lines of black glaze create a design on the top, spout, and widest two faces of the bottle.
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