vase, Rookwood Pottery; Kitaro Shirayamadani

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Rookwood Pottery; Kitaro Shirayamadani, vase
Rookwood Pottery; Kitaro Shirayamadani, vase
, Kitaro Shirayamadani
vase
1909
Kitaro Shirayamadani
1865–1948
vase, 1909
Where object was made: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Material/technique: glaze; earthenware; crackling
Dimensions:
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 23 x 10.5 cm
Object Height/Diameter (Height x Diameter): 9 1/16 x 4 1/8 in
Credit line: Gift of Kathryn Davis
Accession number: 2000.0135
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Quilts: A Thread of Modernism," Aug-2005, Debra Thimmesch and Barbara Brackman Rookwood founder Maria Longworth Nichols was deeply influenced by the Art Nouveau style, which she had occasion to see on one of her frequent trips to Europe in the late 1880s. She was much impressed by the Japanese prints and various other Japanese decorative items that many Art Nouveau artists and designers claimed as influential to their own work. Nichols was intent on employing a Japanese ceramicist at her own pottery company and hired Kataro Shirayamadani in 1887. He soon became one of Rookwood’s chief decorators and remained with the company until his death in 1948.