Shoji Hamada (1894-1978) a stoneware incense box and cover

Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)

a stoneware incense box and cover, circular section, covered in a tenmoku glaze, the cover with simple painted flowerhead motif in iron, unsigned, 7.5cm. diam.

Provenance

Purchased from the New Craftsman gallery, St Ives in 1991 with a note from Janet Leach stating the pot for incense was made by Hamada in 1954.

The studio pottery collection of Sara Pearch

Literature

Bernard Leach Hamada Potter, Kodansha International, plate 64 for a comparable incense box and cover illustrated.