Bowl
(1960s)
- Medium
- stoneware
- Measurements
- 7.1 × 16.1 cm diameter
- Place/s of Execution
- Mashiko, Japan
- Accession Number
- 2003.140
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through the NGV Foundation from the Bequest of Kenneth Hood, Founder Benefactor, 2003
© Hamada Shoji Estate
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Level 1, NGV International
- About this work
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Along with Kawai Kanjirō, Hamada Shōji was one of Japan’s most renowned ceramicists and a founding member of the mingei folk-arts movement. In 1920 Hamada accompanied British ceramicist Bernard Leach to England and assisted in establishing the Leach Pottery in Cornwall, and in turn the broader English studio pottery movement. In 1925 Hamada returned to Japan and settled at Mashiko, north of Tokyo, where he used traditional Mashiko clay and glazes, as well as underglaze pigments, overglaze enamels and salt glaze. He is admired for achieving a great range of effects using creative combinations of a limited-glaze palette. Hamada was designated a Japanese Living National Treasure in 1955, an award his colleague Kawai declined.