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Jar with Japanese Snake Gourd Design

からす瓜模様壺

mid- to late 1900s

Imanishi Masaya 今西 方哉

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Culture
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89) to Heisei period (1989–2019)
Medium
porcelain with underglaze blue
Measurements
Diameter: 33.6 cm (13 1/4 in.); Overall: 31.7 cm (12 1/2 in.); Diameter of rim: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of the artist 1992.98
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

The snake gourds growing around the artist's home near Nara are shaped like rugby balls and in summer, their white flowers that look like silk threads make you forget the heat, he says.

Description

Imanishi Masaya trained with Kondō Yūzō, whose mature work combined classical East Asian decorative motifs, such as pine, bamboo, and plum, executed with Western-style brushwork on traditional Asian forms, like the flower vase 1994.129. Imanishi’s jar shows overall fidelity to his teacher’s methods while reintroducing more delicate, calligraphic brushwork in the surface design.
White porcelain, spherical jar with a thin rim at the top. In the upper half, blue underglaze depicts leaves that flare into three undulating sections connected by the darker blue of the leaves' veins. Sparse, thin branches connect the leaves, with two furrowed spheres visible hanging from them. The glaze creates a smooth sheen that catches the light.

Jar with Japanese Snake Gourd Design

mid- to late 1900s

Imanishi Masaya

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89) to Heisei period (1989–2019)

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