Japanese Mashiko Studio Pottery TATSUZO SHIMAOKA Meoto Yunomi Married Tea Cups
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Type: Large & Small Pair of Married Tea Cups (Meoto Yunomi)
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: Mid 20th C. (1900s)
Origin/Maker: Made by Living National Treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka (1919-2007), from Mashiko, Japan. Includes descriptive paper and signed box (tomobako). Both cups are signed..
Size: Large is 3 1/2" tall (8.9 cm), Small is 3" tall (7.6 cm)
Weight: Large is 6.9 oz (197 g), Small is 4.7 oz (134 g)
Provenance: Kamakura antique store, near Engaku-ji
Collected: November 2022
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos.
Subject: Design has Shimaoka's Jōmon zogan style, using rope to impress design and filled with slip.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuz%C5%8D_Shimaoka)
Shimaoka's Jōmon zogan pottery was inspired by two ancient processes. The Jōmon rope like process and the Korean Yi Dynasty process of adding white slip to decorative indentations.
Jōmon involves using silk and other dense ropes (often obihimo, or cord to wrap the obi for Japanese kimono) to make impressions in leather hard clay, while zogan is a process whereby slip is applied and inlaid in multiple layers into the impressed pattern. The slipped pattern is then carved back to the clay, highlighting it and leaving patterns exposed.[1] Hamada Shoji is reputed to have brought the technique for salt glazing to Japan after a visit to Europe in the early 1950s, and Shimaoka was also widely known for his salt glaze work. He designed one of the first noborigama kilns in Mashiko that had markedly different atmospheres in each chamber, and he was also a pioneer in importing clays from around Japan to Mashiko, such as clay from Shigaraki. His noborigama had separate chambers for ash covered ware, charcoal reduced ash covered ware, high temperature reduction feldspathic ash glazes, traditional Mashiko glazes such as seiji, nuka, kaki, and kuro, and a final chamber for salt glaze.
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Japanese Mashiko Studio Pottery TATSUZO SHIMAOKA Meoto Yunomi Married Tea Cups
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See also: Mashiko ware *
Type: Large & Small Pair of Married Tea Cups (Meoto Yunomi)
Material: Ceramic Pottery
Age: Mid 20th C. (1900s)
Origin/Maker: Made by Living National Treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka (1919-2007), from Mashiko, Japan. Includes descriptive paper and signed box (tomobako). Both cups are signed..
Size: Large is 3 1/2" tall (8.9 cm), Small is 3" tall (7.6 cm)
Weight: Large is 6.9 oz (197 g), Small is 4.7 oz (134 g)
Provenance: Kamakura antique store, near Engaku-ji
Collected: November 2022
Condition: Item is used in good condition commensurate with age, see photos.
Subject: Design has Shimaoka's Jōmon zogan style, using rope to impress design and filled with slip.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatsuz%C5%8D_Shimaoka)
Shimaoka's Jōmon zogan pottery was inspired by two ancient processes. The Jōmon rope like process and the Korean Yi Dynasty process of adding white slip to decorative indentations.
Jōmon involves using silk and other dense ropes (often obihimo, or cord to wrap the obi for Japanese kimono) to make impressions in leather hard clay, while zogan is a process whereby slip is applied and inlaid in multiple layers into the impressed pattern. The slipped pattern is then carved back to the clay, highlighting it and leaving patterns exposed.[1] Hamada Shoji is reputed to have brought the technique for salt glazing to Japan after a visit to Europe in the early 1950s, and Shimaoka was also widely known for his salt glaze work. He designed one of the first noborigama kilns in Mashiko that had markedly different atmospheres in each chamber, and he was also a pioneer in importing clays from around Japan to Mashiko, such as clay from Shigaraki. His noborigama had separate chambers for ash covered ware, charcoal reduced ash covered ware, high temperature reduction feldspathic ash glazes, traditional Mashiko glazes such as seiji, nuka, kaki, and kuro, and a final chamber for salt glaze.
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Japanese Mashiko Studio Pottery TATSUZO SHIMAOKA Meoto Yunomi Married Tea Cups