Ink-Stone (Suzuri)
ca. 1980
Sato Kazutsugi
Japanese, born 1948
Asian Art
The motif of "three friends" popular in East Asian literary culture is here presented as a repeated stylized shōchikubai (pine, plum, and bamboo) pattern carved in a diagonal rectangular grid.
- Maker/Artist
- Sato Kazutsugi
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Oribe ware, buff stoneware, copper-green glaze, wood storage box
- Locations
- Place made: Japan
- Period
- Showa Period
- Dimensions
- 1 3/8 x 5 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (3.5 x 14 x 18.7 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1993.194.19
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John P. Lyden
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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