(Japanese, 1900-1976)
Late 1940s, two important documented stoneware pieces by Mashiko folk potter, including a multi-color dip and ladle-glazed tea bowl and large deep bowl with turquoise and persimmon-glazed highlights, tea bowl 3 x 5 in.; large bowl 16 x 4-1/4 in.; with four reproduction images of period photographs of Totaro Sakuma. Condition: both in good condition. Notes: Prof. Bennett selected Mashiko pottery village as a research site for the eventual publication of [Japanese Village in Transition] with co-author Herb Passen. While conducting his studies, he befriended Sakuma Totaro and acquired a number of his and the family kiln’s pots. Sakuma was an accomplished potter from a distinguished Mashiko pottery family, but is perhaps best known as Hamada Shoji’s first and best friend in Mashiko. The Sakuma pots, although true examples of [Mingei], seem to reflect the new aesthetic that Hamada brought from his world travels. Sakuma’s grandson, Sakuma Fujiya (1963- ), now continues the family potting tradition in Mashiko.
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both in good condition