Dish

Object Details

• Description

  Clay: stoneware.

  Glaze: clear glaze over front, iron glaze on back, overlapping slightly at rim onto front of plate.

  Decoration: white slip applied beneath clear glaze.

  Mark: none.

  Box: none.

• Label

  In their 1978 exhibition and publication, Folk Traditions in Japanese Art (Washington, DC: International Exhibitions Foundation), Victor and Taka Hauge presented the Japanese Folk Craft Movement and other efforts in industrializing Japan to honor and preserve rural craft traditions. Potter-farmer families in the small Kyushu village of Onta included Kurogi Chikara (dates unknown), whose dishes perpetuate a mode of decoration using white slip brought to Kyushu by Korean potters in the late sixteenth century.

• Provenance

  From early 1950s 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: according to Taka Hauge in conversation in 2009, Victor Hauge bought this dish in the 1950s at an exhibition in Tokyo, during the time he was living in Japan.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Victor and Takako Hauge

• Origin

  Onta, Oita prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1950s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan, Onta, Oita prefecture

• Topic

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

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)