The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 12, 2025

Rectangular glossy, black stoneware vessel with geometric "L" shapes outlined in white jutting in from all corners except the lower right. Inside, the "L" shapes are colored with sand-paper textured green-brown. An additional green-brown band runs down the right. Green-brown and lime green splotches scatter among the geometric shapes and in the lower right corner. The vessel rounds slightly at the top.

Flattened Vessel with Hook Motif

2010

Morino Hiroaki (Taimei)

(Japanese, b. 1934)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Glazed stoneware
Overall: 30.1 x 28.8 x 16.6 cm (11 7/8 x 11 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.195
Location: ALOB Asian Lobby

Did You Know?

The characters for ceramist Morino's first name, 泰明, can be read Hiroaki or Taimei. In daily life, the artist uses Hiroaki, but his style name is Taimei.
  • ?-2012
    (Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley)
    2012–2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2020–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge. "Japanese Ceramics." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 230–251. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022. Mentioned and rRproduced: pp. 246–247; Mentioned: p. 268
  • Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).
    Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Flattened Vessel with Hook Motif|url=false|author=Morino Hiroaki (Taimei)|year=2010|access-date=12 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.195