Dorabachi basin with Oribe glaze

Object Details

• Artist

  Kitaoji Rosanjin 北大路 魯山人 (1883-1959)

• Description

  Dorabachi basin with Green Oribe glaze

  Mark: incised on unglazed base, "Rosanjin."

  Box, paulownia wood. Inscribed on top of lid: "Oribe-yu ... dorabachi (Oribe glaze ... gong-shaped basin); signed on back of lid: "Rosanjin" {oval black seal: "Hoshigaoka kama"].

• Signatures

  (L. Cort, June 2009): Incised on unglazed base: "Rosanjin"

• Label

  Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883–1959)—calligrapher, gourmand, cultural impresario—began designing ceramics in order to provide tableware that met his standards for the restaurant “Hoshigaoka” that he ran in Tokyo. Rosanjin is a distinctly modern figure who was not bound to any kiln site but browsed among regional ceramic styles, recreating those that pleased him by employing knowledgeable technicians, orchestrating the shapes and glazes and adding the finishing touches. The Shino and Oribe traditions of Mino ware of the late 16th and early 17th century became available to him after he hired the Mino potter Arakawa Toyozo, who studied the old kilns in order to recreate authentic glazes. Rosanjin’s large dorabachi (“gong-shaped” basin) is a shape unknown at the early Mino kilns yet a perfect foil for an acid green version of Oribe glaze and for Hoshigaoka cuisine.

• Provenance

  From 1972 to 2010

  Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge [1]

  From 2010

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hauge in 2010

  Notes:

  [1]

  Curatorial notes: Purchased by Taka Hauge at a silent auction at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club in 1972.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Victor and Takako Hauge ((1919-2013) and (1923-2015))

• Origin

  Kita Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1940s, 1930s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan, Kita Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Hauge collection, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics, Copper-green glaze

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)