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Description: | Artist: Shoji, Hamada, potter - Japanese potter, 1894-1978;
Production Place: Mashiko; Date(s): circa 1980; Classification(s): stoneware, tea cup, throwing, stoneware, thrown, partly covered with brown glaze and painted in iron-brown and cobalt-blue; Acquisition: given by Wikramaratna, P.H.D.S., 2007-11-19, Given by P.H.D.S. Wikramaratna in memory of his brother, Professor P.H. Diananda [C.61-2007]
Description: Stoneware, thrown, with brown glaze, and painting in iron-brown and dark cobalt-blue. Circular with slightly everted rim, deep sides contracting at the bottom into the low foot. The exterior above the contraction is glazed brown and this extends into the top of the interior where it stops at a irregular horizontal blue line. On opposing sides there is a small roughly oval reserve painted with a stylized plant motif in brown with a blue splodge for a flower. There are blue markings round the top (possibly a blue line which has run) | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | Shoji Hamada stoneware tea cup | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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