Bowl with design of skunk cabbage

Object Details

• Artist

  Fujiwara Shigeru (Japan, born 1926)

• Label

  The artist states: "The design on this dish was inspired by Chinese porcelain of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). I first used a special gum to mask portions of the design on the low-fired, unglazed porcelain. Then I applied gradations of cobalt pigment by blowing it through a fine mesh. After removing the gum, I used shades of cobalt to fill areas of the main images and paint the small overall pattern. A coating of colorless glaze was fired to 1280 degrees C. I then drew the outlines of the flowers in pure gold and fired the bowl at 750 - 800 degrees C."

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Contemporary Porcelain from Japan (November 21, 1993 to September 5, 1994)

• Origin

  Terai, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the Japan Foundation

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Fujiwara, Shigeru

• Place

  Terai, Japan, Ishikawa prefecture

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Heisei era (1989 - 2019), Porcelain, Art, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Cabbage

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)