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Hexagonal Jar

八面壺

1984

Morioka Hiroshi 森岡 宏

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Culture
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89)
Medium
carved stoneware (Bizen style)
Measurements
Diameter: 20 cm (7 7/8 in.); Overall: 18 cm (7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2001.69
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Morioka Hiroshi is based in Okayama, the center of Bizen-style ceramics.
Medium-brown hexagonal stoneware jar rounding into a spherical shape, with a thin band for a rim at the top. Fine scratches texture the surface, with light catching on a central facing side of the hexagon, the flanking visible sides cast in shadow.

Hexagonal Jar

1984

Morioka Hiroshi

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89)

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