Box with Lid / Kôyama Kiyoko
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2010/1.210
- Title
- Box with Lid
- Artist
- Kôyama Kiyoko
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1936
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with natural ash glaze
- Object Creation Date
- circa 2000
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Kinki (region)
- Shiga (prefecture)
- Shigaraki (city)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Kinki (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Shiga (prefecture)
- Creation Place 5
- Shigaraki (city)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Dimensions
- 10.5 cm x 18.2 cm x 18.5 cm (4 1/8 in. x 7 3/16 in. x 7 5/16 in.)
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- box
- Physical Description
- This ovular box, although flat on the bottom, has a lid decorated with curved ridges and protrusions that arch across the surface. The entire exterior is speckled with tiny craters, breaking up the illusion of a perfectly smooth surface. The ash glaze decorates the lidded box with an earthy brown color. The glaz pools in the valleys of the lid and small craters throughout, creating areas of darker hue. The meeting of the lid and box body is not a straight line, but rugged.
- Subject Matter
- This is a container with a lid. The artist, Koyama Kyoko, struggled as a female potter in a trade dominated by male artists. She received recognition when she discovered a way to revive the forgotten techinique of natural ash glazes, which are commonly used in her work.
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Record
- 2010/1.210
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2010-sl-1.210/2010_1.210a.jpg
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"Box with Lid; Kôyama Kiyoko." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2010-sl-1.210/2010_1.210a.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 07, 2024.
