WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION Togen Glazed Chawan (tea bowl), Shudei (tea bowl) with impressed circa 1945-58 All works in the exhibition are from the permanent trimming Stoneware, Tamba kiln Stoneware, Tokoname Kiln Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders A Journey from collection of the Mills College Art Museum. Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Glazed plate with landscape Yuko Abe Kiyoshi Hara (1936-) Kenkicki Tomimoto (1886-1963) design, circa 1945-58 Earthenware Stoneware Cup for soba (buckwheat noodle) Vase with glazed upper half, Plaque with red enamel and gold Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders sauce with blue underglazed and circa 1945-58 decoration, circa 1945-58 blue decoration, circa 1945-58 Stoneware Porcelain Glazed small bowl, Oribe type, Porcelain Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders to Porcelain circa 1945-58 Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Hajime Kato (1900-1968) Stoneware, Seto kiln Cup for soba (buckwheat noodle) Toshu Yamamoto (1906-1993) th Glazed bowl, circa 1945-58 Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Early 20 Century sauce with blue underglazed and Chawan (tea bowl), circa 1945-58 Stoneware blue decoration Stoneware, Bizen kiln Glazed oil plate, circa 1945-58 Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Japanese Ceramics from the Porcelain Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Stoneware, Seto Kiln Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Koheiji Miura (1933-2006) Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Mills College Art Museum Unknown Artists Cup for soba (buckwheat noodle) Plate with African landscape with Shoji Hamada; Blue and white Imari bottle, Oakland, California sauce with blue underglazed and blue and white underglaze, Glazed Chawan (tea bowl), with Rectangular mold made stoneware vase circa 1945-58 blue decoration, circa 1945-58 circa 1945-58 raku glazed black with brown flash, Porcelain, Arita kiln Porcelain circa 1945-58 Gift of Mr. William S. Picher The Chancellor’s Committee on Art, Honors, and Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Earthenware Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Gen Murata (1904-1988) Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Recognition of the University of California, San Francisco Glazed Chawan (tea bowl), Shin Fujihira (1922 -) (UCSF) and Lynne Baer, Art Advisor to the Committee, Oblong, rectangular bottle with circa 1945-58 Glazed covered bowl, Glazed Chawan (tea bowl), with beige, green body with Stoneware, Asahi kiln are pleased to present this exhibition, A Journey from circa 1945-58 raku glazed black with brown flash, green and brown splashes, th circa 1945-58 Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Earthenware to Porcelain: Early 20 Century Japanese Stoneware circa 1945-58 Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Earthenware Ceramics from the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, Gift of Mr. William S. Picher Horseshoe-shaped Oribe dish Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders California. In the context of exploring the humanistic with three small feet, blue/green Yu Fujiwara (1932-2001) Seiko Nomato pooled at top and stone gray at relationship between art and science, the Committee has Glazed bottle with trailed Bizenyaki plate with rounded Glazed cup with decoration, bottom, landscape with trees, calligraphy, “Kyoto-kagawaza”, as its mandate the enhancement of the public spaces corners. Moon with rice straw mark circa 1945-58 circa 1945-58 identifying owner, circa 1945-58 of the campus, including the library. design, circa 1945-58 Stoneware Gift of Mr. William S. Picher Stoneware, Tamba kiln Gift of Mr. William S. Picher Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders The Chancellor’s Committee on Art, Honors, and Glazed sake cup with iron Glazed cup, circa 1945-58 Recognition wishes to thank Patrisia Spezzaferro, curator Shoji Hamada (1894-1978) decoration, circa 1945-58 Stoneware Glazed sake bottle with trailed Glazed bowl, circa 1945-58 Gift of Mr. William S. Picher of the exhibition, an Art History student intern under the Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders inscription, circa 1945-58 Stoneware, Mashiko kiln Stoneware, Tamba kiln guidance of Dr. Mary-Ann Milford, Professor of Art History Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883-1959) Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders and Carver Professor of Far East Studies; Dr. Stephanie Salt glazed bottle, E-Shino type plate, circa 1945-58 Hanor, Director of Mills College Art Museum; and Stacie circa 1945-58 Stoneware, Kamakura kiln Daniels, Manager of Collections and Exhibitions at Stoneware, Mashiko kiln Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Mills College for contributing their expertise as well as loaning the objects to the exhibition. Rectangular mold made vase with Tatsuzo Shimaoka (1919-2007) wax resist, circa 1945-58 Tall vase with short, narrow neck Art exhibitions have become an integral part of the library Stoneware, Mashiko kiln with green/beige, diagonal rolled Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders lines from shoulder, circa 1945-58 both with large freestanding works on pedestals and Gift of Mr. William S. Picher smaller works displayed in museum quality cases. The Salt glazed cup with iron underglaze, circa 1945-58 library also has a growing permanent collection of paintings KALMANOVITZ LIBRARY Suemasa Suemasa Stoneware, Mashiko kiln and sculpture including works by California artists Nathan Glazed Chawana (tea bowl), Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Oliviera, Fred Reichman, Robert Cremean, and internationally UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, circa 1945-58 Glazed cup with painted decoration Stoneware, Karatsu kiln recognized artists Bill Woodrow and George Mathieu. in iron and copper, circa 1945-58 SAN FRANCISCO Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Stoneware, Mashiko kiln Gift of Dr. Herbert H. Sanders Cover: Kitaoji Rosanjin; Kura Suzuki (1934-) E-Shino type stoneware plate Glazed Shino sake cup white with December 2010 – December 2011 pink and red-brown decorations, Photography: David W. Johnson circa 1945-58 Unknown artist; Gift of Mr. William S. Picher Oribe dish, landscape with trees were produced in POTTERY MAKERS Kenkichi Tomimoto (1886-1963) was one of Japan’s A Journey from the following Yayoi finest and most influential ceramic artists. In 1915, During the Meiji period (1868-1912) interest in Period (400 B.C.E. he built his own pottery declined. A rebirth occurred during the Earthenware to 300 C.E.). Pottery kiln in Yamato revival of mingei, the popular folk arts movement, became an art form producing to Porcelain led by Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), who is known in the 13th century low-fired for generating interest not only in pottery but all EARLY 20TH CENTURY with the introduction raku wares. Unknown artist; Glazed stoneware traditional crafts during the early 20th small bowl, Oribe type of Chinese and Korean Without JAPANESE CERAMICS century. Resurrecting the craft ceramic techniques at Seto in Aichi by the artisan a doubt, after its near demise during Toshihiro. In the 14 th century, five more kilns Tomimoto’s A Journey from Earthenware to Porcelain features the Industrial Revolution, Kenkicki Tomimoto; Porcelain plaque were established in Tokoname, Shigaraki, Bizen, with red enamel and gold decoration greatest thirty-five ceramic objects from the early 20th the potter, Shoji Hamada, Echizen, and Tamba, and became known as the contribution to the art of pottery was his discovery century, including works by the (1894-1978), along with “Six Ancient Kilns.” of a way to combine gold and silver in decorative world famous Japanese the British potter, Bernard designs; by mixing silver with platinum, the melting potter, Kitaoji Rosanjin, and Porcelain in contrast has a shorter history. In 1510, Leach, were by far the most point of silver was raised and allowed both gold and nine designated Living the potter Shonzui learned the craft at the Chinese famous and influential artists silver decorations to be fired at the same time. The National Treasures imperial porcelain factory at Jing de Zhen; he Shoji Hamada; of the mingei movement in the Salt glazed stoneware bottle wall plaque in gold on red enamel is an excellent recipients. The ceramic also studied Korea’s advanced technologies for 20th century, who influenced example of his technical brilliance. objects in this exhibition glazing stoneware and porcelain. In 1616, a kaolin generations of artist-potters in England, the United are drawn from the Mills source discovered in Arita in Saga Prefecture on States, and Japan. Using the local clay from Mashiko The Imari underglazes on blue and College Art Museum in the southern island of Kyushu allowed Japan to and available organic material such as salt and cinder white porcelain represent the quiet, Oakland. The collection produce its own Chinese style porcelain. Although for his glazes, Hamada produced utilitarian wares in subdued side of the Imari production. was a gift to Mills in Imari was produced in Arita, it derived its name from strong, simple shapes brushed with abstract designs True porcelain consists of a mixture the 1970s from William Imari, a port city from where porcelain was shipped for ordinary use. The rectangular bottle by Hamada of kaolin, silica and feldspar. S. Picher, a prominent to Europe that was later copied in Germany, is coated with a thick glaze that produces the natural Although porcelain is worked San Francisco patron France, and Britain. pebbled texture characteristic of salt glazing. His like clay, when fired it is like of the arts, and from Dr. influence can be seen in the square bottle of his glass. Potter Abe Yuko’s soba Japanese pottery Herbert Sanders, a Bay student Gen Murata (1904-88). cups used for buckwheat blossomed during the Area teacher, writer, and noodles, display underglazes Tatsuzo Shimaoka; Tall vase Momoyama Period Kitaoji Rosanjin’s (1883- collector. This exhibition with short, narrow neck of blue decoration that are (1575-1603), when it 1959) shino type stoneware looks at Japan’s ceramic journey from earthenware examples of Tobe ware from was developed as an art plate combines traditional Unknown artist; Blue and to porcelain demonstrating the technical brilliance, the Ehime Prefecture. white porcelain Imari bottle form due to the popularity Momoyama aesthetics with refined aesthetics, and feeling for nature that lies at of the tea ceremony. refined modern sensibility. The A Journey from Earthenware to Porcelain highlights the heart of Japanese ceramics. Unknown Artist; Raku glazed Oribe and Shinto tea Chawan (tea bowl) warm, cream white bodied Japanese technical brilliance, refined aesthetics, ceremony ceramics were made under the guidance shino ware that is usually and a feeling for nature in Japanese ceramics. This BRIEF HISTORY OF of the tea masters Sen no Rikyo and Furuta Oribe. covered with a rich feldspathic exhibition aims to ignite a desire to take a journey into JAPANESE POTTERY The master potter Chojiro developed the raku-yaki glaze often with simple Unknown artist; Glazed sake the world of Japanese ceramics and hold in one’s The production of unglazed earthenware in Japan style of earthenware pottery that is fired, glazed and underglaze design in iron slip, cup with iron decoration hands, the bowl, or the dish that speaks directly to goes back to the Neolithic Jomon period (10,000 then immediately fired again leaving a darkened is typical of the Momoyama period. The rosy tone of the heart rather than the mind — for this sensitivity can to 300 B.C.E.). Wheel-turned pottery vessels distinctively varied pattern. the body glows from beneath the glaze. be found only in the pottery of Japan.