Hexagonal Box | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1978

Medium: Stoneware with overglaze decoration of iron oxide and cream glaze
Dimensions: 3 11/16 × 9 3/8 × 8 1/4 in. (9.3 × 23.8 × 21 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mimi and Peter Neill in memory of Andrew C. Ritchie
Accession Number: 1978.135a-b
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Showa era (1926–89)
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Dr. Frederick Baekeland
155 West 68th St, NY, NY 10023

Bibliography

Sadako Ohki, "Japanese Art at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2007), 40

Sadako Ohki, Twentieth-Century Japanese Ceramics at the Yale University Art Gallery: The Collections of Molly and Water Bareiss, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 1–2

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Object/Work type

stoneware

At the bottom in one of the hexagonal corners bears an impressed seal of "Toshi" (the first character of her personal name Toshiko).

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