Large dish

Object Details

• Artist

  Suzuki Osamu (born 1934)

• Description

  Large slab plate, E-Shino style.

  Mark: signed on the base.

  Box: lost in course of traveling exhibition.

• Signatures

  Signed in iron pigment on the base, under the glaze: "Osamu."

• Label

  Suzuki Osamu (born 1934), belongs to the generation of Mino and Seto potters who, as young men in the 1960s, departed from traditional tea- and tableware forms to experiment with Shino and Oribe glazes on massive sculpted serving vessels or abstract sculptural forms. Suzuki’s Shino-glazed dish with its calligraphic decor was exhibited in the 1966 1st Japan Arts Festival, which toured New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago and San Francisco. The Hauges purchased the dish from the exhibition, which showed the works of selected potters alongside contemporary painters and sculptors. Suzuki was appointed a Living National Treasure in 1994 for his mastery of Shino glaze.

• Provenance

  From 1966 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] Object file. Purchased by the Hauges from The 1st Japan Art Festival (1966, New York, Pittsburgh, and West Coast)

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese Ceramics 1930 - 2000 (July 23, 2011 - June 30, 2013)

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

  The 1st Japan Art Festival (early 1960s)

• Previous custodian or owner

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

• Origin

  Tajimi, Gifu prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1960s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan, Tajimi, Gifu prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Hauge collection, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Mino ware, E-Shino type, Ceramics, Iron pigment

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)