Bowl with Design of Figs and Leaves

ca. 1990

Ito Motohiko Japanese, born 1939

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About the Artwork

Itō Motohiko is an artist specializing in tableware decorated with powerful, evocative distillations of natural beauty. This contemporary bowl continues the traditions of the Rimpa style. Its shape echoes that of Kōrin’s favored round-fan format, which had a profound influence on the circular ceramic compositions by Kōrin’s younger brother, Ogata Kenzan. The principle of using a selected vignette from nature in a carefully orchestrated space is seen in all their work.

Title Bowl with Design of Figs and Leaves

Artwork Date ca. 1990

Artist Ito Motohiko

Life Dates born 1939

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Japanese

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Clay, cloth, ink, colors, ash glaze

Dimensions Overall: 5 × 15 1/4 inches (12.7 × 38.7 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department Asian Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Stanford C. Stoddard

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1994.27

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Signed Signed, inside lid of box: Motohiko saku

Inscriptions Inscribed, on bottom: To Inscribed, on bottom: friend box Inscribed, outside of box lid: Nunome ichijiku mon hachi

Provenance

Dr. Frederick Baekeland (New York, New York, USA)

1994-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Ito Motohiko, Bowl with Design of Figs and Leaves, ca. 1990, clay, cloth, ink, colors, ash glaze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Stanford C. Stoddard, 1994.27.