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Twisted pot
Michikawa Shōzō (Shozo Michikawa was born in Hokkaido, the most northern area of Japan. He studied at Aoyama Gakuin University, from where he graduated in 1975. He initially had a career in business, but took up evening classes in art where he discovered his talent and passion for pottery. A few years later, Michikawa made the decision to give up his life in business and to focus on creating ceramics.
In July 2005, he was given the rare honour of being the first Japanese artist to have a solo exhibition of his art in The Forbidden City in Beijing, at the Taimiao.
Michikawa has exhibited widely in Japan and around the world, including the Philippines, Mongolia, France, China, New York and London.
Michikawa’s work is also in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; the Modern Glass & Ceramic Museum, Coburg, Germany; Shimada City Museum, Japan; Qingling Temple, Xi’an, China; China-Japan Exchange Center, Beijing, China; University of Wales, Aberystwyth.)
Twisted pot, red grogged stoneware body, upright vessel form square at the base with deep vertical groove cut at each corner, vigorously twisted and distorted, seven horizontal cuts, roughly circular at the rim, a thin and patchy grey-green natural ash glaze.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 39108
Creation/Production
Michikawa Shōzō
Date: 2009
Acquisition
Purchase - ass. of DWT, 21/1/2010
Purchased with support from The Derek Williams Trust
Measurements
Height
(cm): 38
diam
(cm): 15.5
Height
(in): 14
diam
(in): 6
Techniques
wheel-formed
cut
decoration
Applied Art
manipulated
forming
Applied Art
twisted
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
stoneware
ash
Location
In store
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