Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)

a Mashiko Pottery stoneware plate,

with a ladle poured design in green copper Seigi glaze on a nuka ground

unsigned, repaired rim 25cm. diam.

Literature

Swan Song of the 20th Century - Contemporary Ceramics, Bonhams. 9th June 1999 lot 89 page 36 for an identical plate, purchased via Hamada from a Mashiko Gallery in 1957 by Susan Peterson Provenance Mrs Davis

Provenance

Design, Woolley and Wallis Auctioneers, 7th March 2012, lot 1085, private collection.