Thunder child (Raiko)

Object Details

• Artist

  Suzuki Osamu (Japan, 1926-2001)

• Description

  Sculpture with inscribed box and lid (accompanied by display stand).

• Marks

  Potter's mark: Su

• Inscriptions

  Box signed: Osamu; box sealed: Osamu no in

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Birds of Dawn: Pioneers of Japan's Sodeisha Ceramic Movement (March 16 to April 27, 2011)

  Deizô o hiraku Suzuki Osamu tôgeiten (1985)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein

• Type

  Sculpture

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• Date

  1980s

• Name

  Suzuki, Osamu

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan

• Topic

  Porcelain, Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Sculpture