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Jar with Japanese Snake Gourd Design

mid- to late 1900s

Imanishi Masaya 今西 方哉

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89) to Heisei period (1989–2019)
porcelain with underglaze blue
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.)
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of the artist 1992.98
Location: not on view
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The snake gourds growing around the artist's home near Nara are shaped like rugby balls and in summer, their white flowers 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.
Jar with Japanese Snake Gourd Design

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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