HAMADA SHOJI YUNOMI TEACUP

A yunomi made by Hamada Shoji (1894 - 1978).

Decorated with iron underglaze slip and energetic iron brushwork.

Perfect condition

Complete with original signed box.

Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) remains for many the leading studio potter of the 20th century, a charismatic artist whose prodigious energy and natural ease as a thrower and decorator did most to bring the established language of Japanese form and glazing into the modern age. With Bernard Leach he helped to consolidate a new studio pottery movement in the West, his early work at the Leach Pottery in St Ives part of this catalyst. Hamada returned to Japan in 1923 and setting up a studio in Mashiko eight years later. Here he remained until his death. Hamada developed a particularly fluent stoneware with incised, painted and poured decoration that was both generous and economic, work that gave the materials used a new prominence of their own.

Below are links to yunomis with similar decoration

http://www.philrogerspottery.com/portfolio/h255-a-yunomi-by-shoji-hamada/

https://maaklondon.irostrum.com/auction/a9eaa0c6-549c-49fd-8941-134d23d0be06/bidding/2094191

https://maaklondon.irostrum.com/auction/1f12b2ef-1273-4972-88ec-19a92683bf6a/bidding/2091543