Bowl

Object Details

• Artist

  Kimura Morikazu (1921-2015)

• Description

  Iron-glazed bowl, rust red with darker spots.

  Mark: seal impressed on dot of clay attached to base.

  Box, paulownia wood. Inscribed on front of lid: "Tenmoku-yu...sara" (Tenmoku glaze...dish"; on back of lid: "Morikazu saku" (made by Morikazu) [square red seal].

• Signatures

  (L. Cort, June 2009): Seal impressed on dot of clay on base

• Inscriptions

  Inscribed on front of box lid: "Tenmoku-yu...sara" (Tenmoku glaze...dish"; on back of lid: "Morikazu saku" (made by Morikazu) [square red seal].

• 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, this piece was purchased by Taka Hauge from the artist’s studio on Gojozaka, Kyoto, most likely in 1962.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections (December 8, 1993 to August 23, 1994)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

• Origin

  Gojozaka, Kyoto, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1960s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Gojozaka

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Hauge collection, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Brown and black glaze, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)