Tall Vase
DesignerDesigned by
Kitaro Shirayamadani
(Japanese, lived in U.S.A., 1865-1948)
ManufacturerManufactured by
Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Ohio
(American, 1880-1960)
Date1908
MediumEarthenware with slip-painted decoration under a matte vellum glaze
DimensionsOverall (of rim): 4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm)
Overall: 15 3/4 × 5 3/4 in. (40 × 14.6 cm)
Overall: 15 3/4 × 5 3/4 in. (40 × 14.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Despres
Collections
Object number1974.134
Status
Not on viewKataro Shirayamadai came to the United States as part of a traveling vignette of a Japanese village, and was invited by Rookwood Pottery to join their decorating staff in 1887. Painted by Shirayamadani in 1908, this tall vase represents an interesting “domestification” of Asian influence in later Rookwood Pottery. Though painted by a Japanese artisan working at the Cincinnati pottery works, the scene itself evokes the pristine lakes and indigenous geese of the American Midwest rather than views of local river plants and birds often found in Japanese paintings and prints that had originally inspired the design on Rookwood pottery.
circa 900 - 700 B.C.E.
907 - 1125
circa 450 B.C.E.
