Potter: Hirai, Akiko
Hemispherical footed stoneware bowl, with thin 'ribs' up opposite sides. Matt white glaze outside, with some 'pinholes', more shiny but still rough, white inside. A long tailed lizard in relief appears on the foot
History note: Bought by Shakeshaft from an Oxford Ceramics Fair, 27th October 2007
Bequeathed by John Shakeshaft
Height: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2016) by Shakeshaft, John, Dr
21st Century
After
2000
CE
-
Before
2007-10
CE
Akiko Hirai (b.1970) was born in Shizuoka, Japan and attended Aichi Gakuin University before moving to the UK in 1999. She studied ceramics at the University of Westminster and Central St Martins and has taught at Kensington & Chelsea College. She opened her own studio in the Chocolate Factory, Stoke Newington, in 2003. She works particularly with the moon jar form, attracted by the Korean jar owned by Bernard Leach and Lucie Rie in which she found a reflection of the irregularities of landscape in its seeming imperfections and was inspired by the way it wore its past. Hirai throws and coils her pots, pushing the clay to its limit ‘to reach the moment before collapse’, seeking ‘something ambiguous, unsettled and imaginative’.
At Widest Point
Diameter 12.3 cm
At Base
Diameter 5.5 cm
Accession number: C.318-2016
Primary reference Number: 207964
Sale catalogue photo number: K198
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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