Kitamura Junko
Vase

Vase

© Kitamura Junko

Vase
Vase
ArtistJapanese, born 1956
CultureJapanese
Titles
  • Vase
Date1991
PlaceJapan
MediumEarthenware
DimensionsOverall: 26 11/16 × 26 11/16 × 26 11/16in. (67.8 × 67.8 × 67.8cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Sue Rowan Pittman
Object number92.521
Not on view

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Department
Asian Art
Object Type
Description

Kitamura Junko grew up in a historical part of Kyoto and was a student of two of Japan’s most prominent modern artists: Suzuki Osamu and Kondo Yutaka. She blends modern visual sensibilities with patterns evocative of Jomon period (10,500–300 BC) pottery and clay from the ancient pottery center of Shigaraki.


Kitamura uses a sharpened bamboo stick to impress delicate geometric designs into the body of vessels like this one. She covers the piece with a dark slip (liquid clay) before the initial firing, after which she applies white slip to each indentation.


ProvenanceResearch Ongoing
Exhibition History"Contemporary Craft from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 27–August 13, 2001.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Labeled on base, marked in black ink on white sticker "P"

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