Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 142, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Gallery

Plate

1930-1931 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Shallow circular dish painted in shades of cobalt blue with a country scene in the vicinity of Ando village, near Nara, the place of Tomimoto's birth.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Brief description
Plate, porcelain with landscape decoration in cobalt blue, made by Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886-1963), Japan (Tamagawa), 1931
Physical description
Shallow circular dish painted in shades of cobalt blue with a country scene in the vicinity of Ando village, near Nara, the place of Tomimoto's birth.
Dimensions
  • Diameter: 33.6cm
  • Height: 4.1cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
Maker's mark on base in ? underglaze cobalt blue
Production
Biographical reference: Hamada Shoji 'Gendai no togei' Vol 17 (1977), p. 104 (NAL JK 17)
Subject depicted
Bibliographic references
  • See biogref
  • Exhibition of stoneware pottery and porcelain by Kenkichi Tomimoto (of Tokyo) and Bernard Leach, London : Beaux Arts Gallery, 1931 no. 71, p.5
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.148-1931

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Record createdFebruary 12, 2000
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