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Ink-Stone (Suzuri)

Sato Kazutsugi

Object Label

The motif of "three friends" popular in East Asian literary culture is here presented as a repeated stylized shōchikubai (pine, plum, and bamboo) pattern carved in a diagonal rectangular grid.

Caption

Sato Kazutsugi (Japanese, born 1948). Ink-Stone (Suzuri), ca. 1980. Oribe ware, buff stoneware, copper-green glaze, wood storage box, 1 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (3.5 x 14 x 18.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden, 1993.194.19.

Gallery

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Collection

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Collection

Artist

Title

Ink-Stone (Suzuri)

Date

ca. 1980

Period

Showa Period

Geography

Place made: Japan

Medium

Oribe ware, buff stoneware, copper-green glaze, wood storage box

Classification

Dimensions

1 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (3.5 x 14 x 18.7 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden

Accession Number

1993.194.19

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Artists and makers

Sato Kazutsugi

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