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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 137, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Tea Bowl

1984 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Tea bowl, made from the open-grained creamy almost white clay known locally in the Seto and Mino areas as 'mogusa tsuchi', it is loosely and fairly heavily thrown in an almost cylindrical shape. The rim is slightly carved and the base sculpted in a few energetic strokes to give a shallow and uneven footring.

The decoration on the exterior of the bowl consists of heavily applied underglaze iron splashes of an abstract nature slanting downwards and across from left to right. The white Shino glaze, which covers the whole bowl except the footring and its immediate surroundings, is opaque in most areas due to the thickness of its application and the effects of some sort of crystallizations.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware with white Shino glaze
Brief description
Tea bowl, stoneware with white Shino glaze, made by Suzuki Goro, Japan (Fujioka), 1984
Physical description
Tea bowl, made from the open-grained creamy almost white clay known locally in the Seto and Mino areas as 'mogusa tsuchi', it is loosely and fairly heavily thrown in an almost cylindrical shape. The rim is slightly carved and the base sculpted in a few energetic strokes to give a shallow and uneven footring.

The decoration on the exterior of the bowl consists of heavily applied underglaze iron splashes of an abstract nature slanting downwards and across from left to right. The white Shino glaze, which covers the whole bowl except the footring and its immediate surroundings, is opaque in most areas due to the thickness of its application and the effects of some sort of crystallizations.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.4cm
  • Width: 8.7cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Potter's signature inscribed into the clay next to the footring
Credit line
Given by M. Yamamoto
Production
Artist: Suzuki Goro (1941 - )
Biographical reference: Shoji, Hamada. 'Gendai no togei', Vol 17, 1977, p. 85 NAL JK 17
Fujioka, Seto
Collection
Accession number
FE.70-1984

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2000
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