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Square Plate

Artist: Hamada Shoji, Japanese, 1894-1978
Medium: Stoneware with iron-oxide decoration and underfired glaze
Place Made: Japan
Dates: ca. 1960
Period: Showa period
Collections: Asian Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Asian Galleries, The Arts of Japan, 2nd Floor
Accession Number: 75.179
Credit Line: Purchase gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kahn
Image: Overall, 75.179_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Square plate with sand-colored, intentionally under-fired glaze and a single, central stalk of wheat painted in iron-oxide brown, the border with a molded diagonal hatched pattern under a mottled tan and brown glaze. Condition: Perfect.

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