Set of six dishes

Object Details

• Artist

  Kitaoji Rosanjin 北大路 魯山人 (1883-1959)

• Description

  Set of six porcelain dishes with underglaze copper red design of flower, double line around rim.

  Mark: on base, written with cobalt pigment, inside footrim, 8-pointed star drawn with four intersecting lines. In Rosanjin: 20th Century Master Potter of Japan, p. 91, this mark is described as a stylized star referring to Rosanjin's restaurant, Hoshigaoka.

  Box, paulownia wood, beige-and-blue striped cotton cord. Inscribed on from of lid: "Yuriko ... 5 [?mai]" (underglaze copper-red ... 5 [pieces?]"; inscribed on back of lid: "Rosanjin" [oval black seal: Hoshigaoka].

• Marks

  Mark on base: in cobalt, inside footrim, 8-pointed star (four intersecting lines)

  on base, written with cobalt pigment, inside footrim, 8-pointed star drawn with four intersecting lines. In Rosanjin: 20th Century Master Potter of Japan, p. 91, this mark is described as a stylized star referring to Rosanjin's restaurant, Hoshigaoka.

  on base, written with cobalt pigment, inside footrim, 8-pointed star drawn with four intersecting lines. In Rosanjin: 20th Century Master Potter of Japan, p. 91, this mark is described as a stylized star referring to Rosanjin's restaurant, Hoshigaoka.

• 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. He conducted his earliest collaboration with two porcelain potters from Ishikawa prefecture, adding his own decoration to the shapes they threw, glazed and fired for him. These six rare early porcelain dishes marked with the Hoshigaoka star-shaped insignia bear swift, simple decoration painted in copper-red pigment beneath a silky glaze. The idea of using volatile copper with its tendency to turn gray—here anticipated to advantage—could have come from Chinese Yuan or Korean Joseon porcelain.

• 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

• Exhibition History

  Rosanjin: Twentieth Century Master Potter of Japan (1972)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Victor and Takako Hauge

• Origin

  Kita Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1920s, 1940s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan, Kita Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture

• Topic

  Cobalt pigment, Porcelain, Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Hauge collection, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)