Vase
Object Details
- Label
- Kitamura's patterning of her ceramic forms is reminiscent of certain contemporary textiles or prints in its crisp execution and sleek fit on the form. Nevertheless, she does use a technique—inlay of white slip into the impressed depressions—that refers to the slip-inlay technique used prominently on Choson-period Korean and Edo-period Japanese ceramics, and she states that the images for her pieces arise from the patterns on Jomon earthenware. In this reworking of tradition, she is representative of Kyoto ceramic artists who have been masters of reinterpretation since the seventeenth century.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese Ceramics 1930 - 2000 (July 23, 2011 - June 30, 2013)
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 1993
- Period
- Heisei era
- Accession Number
- S1994.3
- Artist
- Kitamura Junko (Japan, born 1956)
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Vessel
- Medium
- Black stoneware with white slip inlay
- Dimensions
- H x Diam: 54.6 x 16.3 cm (21 1/2 x 6 7/16 in)
- Origin
- Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Topic
- inlay (process)
- ceramic
- Heisei era (1989 - 2019)
- Japan
- stoneware
- Japanese Art
- Contemporary Art
- Record ID
- fsg_S1994.3
