Tea bowl

Object Details

• Artist

  Wakao Toshisada (Japan, born 1933)

• Label

  Wakao Toshidada was born in Tajimi, a town in the Mino region east of the city of Nagoya. His ceramics employ the materials and techniques of Shino ware, a product of Mino developed during the sixteenth century and favored for tea-ceremony utensils and tableware. Shino ware combines the local white clay with a translucent white glaze formulated from feldspar; its decoration incorporates iron pigment, either painted on or simply poured over the surface, as on this bowl.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections (December 8, 1993 to August 23, 1994)

  Paper and Clay from Modern Japan (January 20 to March 31, 1991)

• Origin

  Tajimi, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1980s, 1970s

• Name

  Wakao, Toshisada

• Place

  Japan, Tajimi, Gifu prefecture

• Topic

  Tea, Contemporary Art, Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Mino ware, Shino type

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)