Bowl
1930-1935 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Korean potters founded the Naeshirogawa kilns in the late 1590s. Bernard Leach, an English potter associated with the Japanese Folk Craft (Mingei) movement, admired their rugged utilitarian products when he visited the kilns in 1934-5. His memoirs recall how 'pots filled an open field, some over-fired, some underfired - all varieties of plain black but nothing personal or decorated and not a bad one amongst them'.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Stoneware, wheel-thrown, with dark brown glaze |
| Brief description | Spouted bowl, stoneware with dark brown glaze; Japan, Naeshirogawa, 1930-35 |
| Physical description | Pouring vessel in the form of a flat-based bowl with deep rounded sides and flattened everted rim; attached spout; glaze coverage complete on interior and down to lower waist on exterior, but wiped away from flattened rim to allow stacking during firing |
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| Style | |
| Credit line | Given by Bernard Leach CH, CBE |
| Object history | Notes on significance: The donor stated that this ware was made by the descendants of Korean potters settled in Hideyoshi's time at Naeshirogawa in Kyushu Island. |
| Summary | Korean potters founded the Naeshirogawa kilns in the late 1590s. Bernard Leach, an English potter associated with the Japanese Folk Craft (Mingei) movement, admired their rugged utilitarian products when he visited the kilns in 1934-5. His memoirs recall how 'pots filled an open field, some over-fired, some underfired - all varieties of plain black but nothing personal or decorated and not a bad one amongst them'. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.149-1935 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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