Artist:Harada Shuroku
Medium: Bizen ware: unglazed stoneware
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Dates:ca. 2006
Dimensions: 11 x 6 5/16 in. (28 x 16 cm)
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Accession Number: 2014.60.5
Image: 2014.60.5_front_PS9.jpg,
Catalogue Description: Harada Shuroku (Japanese, born 1941) Vase, circa 2006 Bizen ware: unglazed stoneware Gift of Steven Korff and Marcia Van Wagner, 2014.60.5 Harada Shuroku trained with the masters of the Bizen kilns, making mostly unglazed, dark-red wares that have scorch patterns as their primary decoration. This vase is in his most experimental style, which he calls ranbari, a Japanese carpentry term for wood flooring composed of boards of various sizes laid down in random order. He creates a relatively smooth and conventional ceramic form, then applies patches of very rough clay to the outside in a meandering grid that resembles a stone wall. (Label by Joan Cummins, October 2019, for Arts of Japan gallery)