Dish
1985 (made)
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This large dish demonstrates to good effect the remarkable skill in rope-impressed decoration that Shimaoka has developed over the years. He has combined three different kinds of patterning with the use of white slip - which fills the rope indentations - and boldly calligraphic underglaze iron painting. As the leading student of Hamada Shoji (1894-1978), Shimaoka is widely regarded as Japan's foremost potter of the Folk Craft (Mingei) Movement. His fascination with rope-impressed decoration is partly due to the fact that his father was a rope-maker. It can also be explained by the proximity to Mashiko, where he lives and works, of numerous archaeological sites dating from the Jomon period (10,500-300 BC), where earthenwares decorated with a rich variety of rope-impressed designs have been found.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware with underglaze iron painting over rope-impressed and slip-filled ground |
| Brief description | Dish, Shimaoka Tatsuzo, Mashiko, Japan, 1985 |
| Physical description | In this dish where the impressed marks are filled in with white slip, the potter has combined three different patterns with leaf like splashes of underglaze iron painting to give a remarkable feeling of vitality to what is an extremely large and challenging pot. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | (Maker's mark; on base; impressed) |
| Object history | Kikuchi? |
| Production | Biographical reference: 'Japanese Ceramics Today' V & A (1983), p.128: Gisela Jahn and Anette Petersen-Brandhorst, 'Erde und Feuer', Deutsches Museum (Munich, 1984), pp.229-231 Mashiko |
| Summary | This large dish demonstrates to good effect the remarkable skill in rope-impressed decoration that Shimaoka has developed over the years. He has combined three different kinds of patterning with the use of white slip - which fills the rope indentations - and boldly calligraphic underglaze iron painting. As the leading student of Hamada Shoji (1894-1978), Shimaoka is widely regarded as Japan's foremost potter of the Folk Craft (Mingei) Movement. His fascination with rope-impressed decoration is partly due to the fact that his father was a rope-maker. It can also be explained by the proximity to Mashiko, where he lives and works, of numerous archaeological sites dating from the Jomon period (10,500-300 BC), where earthenwares decorated with a rich variety of rope-impressed designs have been found. |
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| Accession number | FE.30-1985 |
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| Record created | December 15, 1999 |
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