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Shoji Hamada: 40 Years on List of Works Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Set Of Six Hexagonal Dishes SOLD With a signed, fitted box stoneware with tenmoku and nuka glaze. each 3.5 x 13 cms 1 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (box 16 x 18) (SH021) Okinawa Style Teabowl 1970 £ 4,500.00 Provenance: from The Martha Longenecker Collection, USA. Published in Mingei International Museum, Martha W. Longenecker, ed., Mingei of Japan: The Legacy of The Founders - Soetsu Yanagi, Shoji Hamada, Kanjiro Kawai, (California, 2006), p. 60-61 and p. 66, 70 stoneware with Okinawa style enamel glazing. 8.5 x 13 cms 3 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches (SH043) Kaki Square Vase c1960 SOLD Glazed stoneware, with wax resist design see 'Shoji Hamada, A Potter’s Way and Work' by Susan Peterson, 1974, p122 showing Hamada making this form and p152 showing a group of pieces which includes a very similar version. 20 x 12 x 7 cms 7 7/8 x 4 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches (SH045) Tenmoku Square Bottle Vase 1960 £ 2,750.00 Stoneware with tenmoku glaze and finger-wipe design ash glazed top. 17 x 10 x 10 cms 6 3/4 x 4 x 4 inches (SH046) Teabowl 1965 £ 2,200.00 Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor piece to left of image. stoneware with nuka glaze and dark green rim. 11 x 11.5 cms 4 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (SH050) Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Teabowl 1965 £ 2,200.00 Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor piece to right of image stoneware with nuka glaze and dark green rim. 14.5 x 8 cms 5 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches (SH051) Teabowl 1965 £ 2,200.00 Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor stoneware open bowl with shino glaze and iron rim. 17 x 7 cms 6 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches (SH052) Teabowl £ 2,200.00 Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. 10 x 10 x 11 cms 4 x 4 x 4 3/8 inches (SH053) Teabowl 1960 £ 2,200.00 Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor stoneware with dark, running ash glaze shell marks to the base. 12.5 x 9 cms 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches (SH054) Teabowl £ 2,200.00 Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. 8.5 x 13.5 x 13.5 cms 3 3/8 x 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (SH055) Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Teabowl £ 2,400.00 Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. Originally from the collection of Bernard Leach, illustrated in Shoji Hamada, Master Potter by Timothy Wilcox, p59 no.29. 14.5 x 7 cms 5 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches (SH056) Faceted Teapot c1965 £ 4,500.00 Stoneware with a tenmoku glaze cut sided octagonal body provenance: collection of Mrs Claire Frankel. 19 x 17.5 cms 7 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches (SH058) Teabowl £ 2,200.00 Provenance: from The Martha Longenecker Collection, USA Published in Mingei International Museum, Martha W. Longenecker, ed., Mingei of Japan: The Legacy of The Founders - Soetsu Yanagi, Shoji Hamada, Kanjiro Kawai, (California, 2006), p. 60-61 and p. 66, 70. 10 x 10.2 x 10 cms 4 x 4 1/8 x 4 inches (SH059) White Bottle 1965 SOLD Signed fitted box stoneware with nuka glaze and iron brushwork. 23 x 15.5 cms 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches (box 27 x 19 cm) (SH062) Teapot SOLD Made in the USA provenance: given to Prof. F Carlton Ball when Hamada demonstrated at USC in 1960 stoneware with cane handle. 21 x 18.5 cms 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (SH063) Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Teabowl £ 1,450.00 Made in USA provenance: given to Prof. F Carlton Ball when Hama- da demonstrated as USC in 1960 with Hakeme glaze condition note: a couple of firing flaws to the base. 16 x 7 cms 6 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches (SH064) Summer Teabowl £ 2,200.00 7 x 15.2 x 15.2 cms 2 3/4 x 6 x 6 inches (SH065) Lidded Pot £ 1,800.00 Stoneware. 11.5 x 14 cms 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (SH067) Open Bowl c1955 £ 2,800.00 Stoneware with combed decoration and running ash glaze Provenance: from the collection of Janet Leach. 21.5 x 8 cms 8 1/2 x 3 1/8 inches (SH069) Bowl £ 1,800.00 Provenance: Private Collection, UK slip with iron motif condition note: firing cracks to rim and glaze miss. 13 x 21.5 cms 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (SH070) Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Small Lidded Box SOLD In signed fitted box with Okinawa glaze. 6 x 6.5 cms 2 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches (box 9.5 x 8cm) (SH071) Okinawa Lidded Box SOLD In signed, fitted box with red enamel Provenance: Private Collection, Japan. 6.5 x 5.5 cms 2 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches Box: 8.5 x 8.5 (SH072) Jug with Embossed Decoration £ 1,850.00 In fitted box, signed by Shinsaku Hamada tenmoku glaze Provenance: Private Collection, Japan. 19.5 x 17 cms 7 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches Box: 22 x 20 cm (SH073) Eight Sided Vase c1955 £ 3,500.00 Stoneware with Kaki glaze over tenmoku over ash glazes Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. Featured in Shoji Hamada: Master Potter, Edited by Timothy Wilcox, 1998, plate 35. 17.5 x 14 cms 6 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (SH074) Jar £ 4,500.00 Stoneware with running ash glazes Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. see 'Shoji Hamada, A Potter’s Way and Work' by Susan Peterson, 1974,P114 for Hamada making a similar piece and P136 for a group of pieces including two similar examples. 19 x 19 cms 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (SH075) Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Cut Vase £ 5,500.00 Stoneware with running ash glaze Provenance: The Harriman Judd Collection of British Art Pottery, Sotheby's Jan 2001, then collection of Mike O'Connor. 23.5 x 13.5 cms 9 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (SH076) Squared Bottle SOLD Stoneware with persimmon and copper Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. 19.5 x 12 cms 7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (SH077) Squared Jar SOLD Stoneware with ash glazes Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. 22 x 21 cms 8 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (SH078) Plate £ 1,250.00 Stoneware Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. 19 x 5 cms 7 1/2 x 2 inches (SH079) Plate £ 1,250.00 Stoneware Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. 19 x 3.5 cms 7 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches (SH080) Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Jug £ 2,600.00 Stoneware Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. A similar example can be seen in Shoji Hamada: Master Potter, edited by Timothy Wilcox, 1998, plate 36. 18 x 15 cms 7 1/8 x 5 7/8 inches (SH081) Bowl c1960 £ 3,500.00 Stoneware with shino and iron decoration Provenance: collection of Mike O'Connor. 21 x 12 cms 8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches (SH082) Yunomi £ 950.00 With signed, fitted box stoneware piece to left of pair. 8.2 x 8.3 x 8.3 cms 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches (SH083) Chawan £ 2,200.00 Box signed by Shinsaku Hamada provenance: see Bonhams Design from 1960, 22 June 2011, lot 320 for similar example condition note: small area of gold repair to rim stoneware with iron decoration. 11.5 x 10 cms 4 1/2 x 4 inches (SH086) Chawan £ 2,400.00 In signed fitted box stoneware with running ash glaze. 10 x 18 x 18 cms 4 x 7 1/8 x 7 1/8 inches (SH087) Shoji Hamada: 40 Years On List of Works Oil Pourer c1947 £ 800.00 Stoneware with tenmoku and enamel over glaze condition note: some gold repairs. (SH089) Early Pot with Tripod Feet £ 1,800.00 Paddled with a kaki glaze. 10 x 13 cms 4 x 5 1/8 inches (SH090) Alberello Vase, Made in USA 1960 £ 1,800.00 Stoneware provenance: given to Prof. F Carlton Ball when Hamada demonstrated at USC in 1960 Condition note: spiral firing flaw to body. 22 x 16 cms 8 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches (SH091) Vase, Made in USA 1960 £ 1,600.00 Provenance: given to Prof. F Carlton Ball when Hamada demonstrated at USC in 1960 Condition note: spiral firing flaw to body. 18.5 x 18 cms 7 1/4 x 7 1/8 inches (SH092) Stoneware Footed Bowl £ 900.00 In fitted, signed box condition note: faint rim crack. 11 x 19 cms 4 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (SH093) .
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