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Hamada Shōji: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born December 9, 1894 • Kawasaki • Japan
Died January 5, 1978 (aged 83) • Japan

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Stoneware dish with brush-painted sugarcane pattern by Hamada Shōji, after 1930; in the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Japanese side dish
Ogata Kenzan
Japanese artist
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Ralph Wood, Sr.
English potter
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Beatrice Wood
American ceramicist
Josiah Wedgwood.
Josiah Wedgwood
English craftsman
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John Astbury
English potter
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
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Raoul Dufy
French painter
Marcks, Gerhard: Passage over the Styx
Gerhard Marcks
German artist
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Sonia Delaunay
Russian artist
English slipware dish, “The Pelican in Her Piety,” by Thomas Toft, c. 1670; in the British Museum
Thomas Toft
English potter
Bernard Leach: vase
Bernard Leach
British potter
Rie, Lucie: porcelain bowl
Dame Lucie Rie
British potter
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Sakaida Kakiemon I
Japanese potter
Ogata Kōrin: Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Ogata Kōrin
Japanese artist
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Kawai Kanjirō
Japanese potter
Ninsei: vase with feather fans
Ninsei
Japanese potter
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Miyazaki Yūzen
Japanese painter
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Itaya Hazan
Japanese potter
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Job Townsend
American cabinetmaker
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Firmin Didot
French printer and typesetter