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Shoji Hamada
Early vase
Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000‡︎
Sold For
£9,450
Lot Details
circa 1922
Stoneware, white slip with iron slip painted and carved Crysanthemum design beneath a white glaze.
23 cm (9 in.) high
Impressed with artist's and Leach Pottery seals.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
'After Hamada left St Ives, he didn’t put a press mark on his work. He believed in his own originality, and he wanted that originality to be spoken for by the object, not the signature, not by the press mark. This is a strength of artistic and philosophical vision honoured in the thinking of Yanagi and distinguished Hamada’s achievement.' -J.D.
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