Square Bottle

Object Details

• Artist

  Shimaoka Tatsuzo (Japan, 1919-2007)

• Description

  Square bottle of marbleized clay in checkerboard pattern with rope-pattern inlay and flower-and-grass motifs in overglaze enamels of green, red and yellow. With inscribed wooden box.

• Inscriptions

  Inscription on the inside of the paulownia-wood box lid: Neriage jomon zogan / aka-e soka hoko (Marbleized rope-pattern slip inlay / overglaze enamel grass-and-flower motifs square-sided bottle). The inscription is signed Tatsuzo and sealed in red "Tatsuzo."

  Inscription on the inside of the paulownia-wood box lid: Neriage jomon zogan / aka-e soka hoko (Marbleized rope-pattern slip inlay / overglaze enamel grass-and-flower motifs square-sided bottle). The inscription is signed Tatsuzo and sealed in red "Tatsuzo."

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Mashiko, Tochigi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the artist

• Type

  Vessel

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  2000s

• Name

  Shimaoka, Tatsuzo

• Place

  Japan, Tochigi prefecture, Mashiko

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)