id: 161480 accession number: 2000.150 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.150 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:42.271000 Square Bottle Vase, mid- to late 1900s. Shimaoka Tatsuzō (Japanese, 1919–2007). Stoneware with incised and painted designs and inlaid and applied overglaze; diameter: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); overall: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of T. Dixon Long 2000.150 title: Square Bottle Vase title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: mid- to late 1900s creation date earliest: 1940 creation date latest: 1999 current location: creditline: Gift of T. Dixon Long copyright: --- culture: Japan, Shōwa period (1926-89) technique: stoneware with incised and painted designs and inlaid and applied overglaze department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Shimaoka Tatsuzō (Japanese, 1919–2007) - artist A student of Hamada Shōji, Shimaoka Tatsuzō was also well known in Japan as well as abroad. He enrolled in Tokyo Technical College in 1939 and started a three-year apprenticeship with Hamada in 1946 after a military deployment to Burma. The only son of a third-generation braidmaster, Shimaoka is most associated with inka, a technique created through cord-impressed inlay. He formed this method in 1950 while working at the Tochigi Prefecture Ceramics Research Station, where he was asked to recreate Jōmon-style earthenware as teaching materials. Shimaoka specialized in tableware and vases. Stylistically, most of his pieces resemble Hamada’s. He was named a Living National Treasure in 1996 and awarded the Order of the Rising Star in 1999. --- measurements: Diameter: 9 cm (3 9/16 in.); Overall: 18.4 cm (7 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES