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Dish

Dish

  • Place of origin:

    Tokyo, Japan (made)

  • Date:

    about 1930 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Tomimoto, Kenkichi, born 1886 - died 1963 (maker)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Stoneware with clear glaze over painting in underglaze iron brown

  • Credit Line:

    Given by the Contemporary Art Society through Ernest Marsh

  • Museum number:

    C.211-1939

  • Gallery location:

    World Ceramics, room 145, case 16, shelf 2

  • Image in copyright

Tomimoto Kenkichi learned ceramics alongside Bernard Leach in Japan. The two jointly inherited the title Kenzan VII in 1913.

Physical description

Round dish with broad flat interior and low rounded sides; sketchily painted in underglaze brown with a design of a dragonfly

Place of Origin

Tokyo, Japan (made)

Date

about 1930 (made)

Artist/maker

Tomimoto, Kenkichi, born 1886 - died 1963 (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Stoneware with clear glaze over painting in underglaze iron brown

Marks and inscriptions

Signature painted in brown under the base

Dimensions

Diameter: 23.2 cm, Height: 3.7 cm

Descriptive line

Dish, stoneware with painted designs in brown under a grey glaze; made by Tomimoto Kenkichi, Japan (Tokyo), about 1930

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Contemporary Arts Society catalogue no. 70 See biogref

Labels and date

Dish
Stoneware with painted designs in brown under a grey glaze Unidentifiable mark in brown
By Tomimoto Kenkichi
JAPANESE (TOKYO); c.1935
Given by the Contemporary Art Society
C.211-1939 [as at 2005]

Production Note

Artist: Tomimoto Kenkichi [Kenzan VII] (1886 - 1963)
Biographical reference: Hamada Shoji 'Gendai no togei' Vol 17 (1977), p.104 (NAL JK 17)
Tokyo, Tamagawa

Materials

Stoneware

Techniques

Painted; Glazed

Categories

Ceramics; Studio Pottery; Stoneware

Collection code

EAS

Qr_O24445
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