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Property of a European Collector and Thence by Descent

Shimaoka Tatsuzo (1917-2007) | A large stoneware bottle vase | Showa period, 20th century

Lot Closed

November 5, 04:17 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 4,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Shimaoka Tatsuzo (1917-2007)

A large stoneware bottle vase

Showa period, 20th century 


the oviform vase with tapering shoulder and everted neck, decorated overall with a radial inlaid rope pattern on a bluish-white ground and abstract brushed grasses motif

38.5 cm. 15⅛ in. high

Galleria Gottardo, Shimaoka Tatsuzo: Ceramics una Collezione Privata, (Lugano, 1999), the piece above is dated in the catalogue to 1986.