Plate

Object Details

• Artist

  Shimaoka Tatsuzo (Japan, 1919-2007)

• Description

  Plate with floral pattern inlay, white slip under clear glaze.

  Mark: seal impressed on base inside footrim.

  No box. The box containing both Shimaoka dishes does not relate to them. The inscription reads: "Tei-yo (Ding-yao, Ding ware)."

• Signatures

  (L.Cort, June 2009): Stamp on base inside footrim

• Label

  Shimaoka Tatsuzo (1919–2007, Mashiko, Tochigi prefecture) was the leading successor to potter Hamada Shoji and, like him, a leader in the Folk Craft Movement. Shimaoka’s ornamentation borrowed from the slip-based decoration of folk kilns such as Onta, but his tablewares were fresh and urbane in scale and sensibility.

• Provenance

  From circa 1962 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] According to curatorial notes, Taka Hauge, in conversation in 2010, said that she bought these dishes from Shimaoka’s workshop in 1962, the year Shimaoka received the Nihon Mingeikan Prize at the exhibition of new work at the Nihon Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum) in Komaba, Tokyo.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

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

• Origin

  Mashiko, Tochigi prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

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• Date

  1960s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan, Tochigi prefecture, Mashiko

• Topic

  Art, Inlay (process), Showa era (1926 - 1989), White slip, Hauge collection, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)