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Ceramics, Room 142, The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Gallery

Vase

1923 (made)
Artist/Maker
Leach Pottery (manufacturer)
Hamada, Shoji (maker)
Place of origin
St. Ives (made)

Stoneware vase painted in brown under a milky grey glaze.


Object details

Categories
ELISE
Images Online
SCRAN
Studio Pottery
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, with painting in brown under a milky grey glaze
Stoneware
Glazing
Brief description
Vase by Shoji Hamada, stoneware, Britain, ca.1923.
Physical description
Stoneware vase painted in brown under a milky grey glaze.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.5cm
  • Depth: 12.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
Hamada's seal and 'SI' in monogram, impressed
Credit line
Given by the Secretary of the British Institute of Industrial Art
Object history
Acquisition details: given by the BIIA (gift of Bernard Leach in 1927)
Bibliographic references
  • Watson, Oliver. British Studio Pottery : the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection, Oxford : Phaidon, Christie's, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990
  • Adamson, Glenn, Martina Droth and Simon Olding (ed.s) Things of Beauty Growing British Studio Pottery. New Haven, London, 2017 p. 218
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.411-1934

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Record createdFebruary 5, 1998
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7402/vase-hamada-shoji/
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