$100
Japanese, 20th century. A small pottery round cup form bowl with round foot having a gray earthenware body with swirling white glaze inside and out. A blue underglaze square shaped area to side of bowl could be an indistinguishable hallmark. An applied pottery mark to underside of a crossed circle having the center line extend past the circle and terminate on either end with a diagonal line extending off each side, which could be an alteration of the "Shimazu Mon" (family mark or crest). Approximately 3" tall, 4 1/8 diameter of opening. Provenance: From the Estate of Mr. Soichi Furuta, Woodstock, Georgia. Note: Soichi Furuta (1927-2011) was a Renaissance Man of sorts, beginning his career in fine art arena. After attending UCLA, he joined a creative design and packaging firm in New York where he later became president. The firm (Stuart, Gunn & Furuta) was responsible for packaging design for a number of major brands including Michelob, Hershey's, Vicks, and Nestle. Concurrently, Mr. Furuta taught graduate-level courses in design at the City University in New York, later, he served as an adjunct professor of literature at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in North Carolina. Later in life, Furuta penned a dozen books in both English and Japanese with subjects ranging from poetry to translations and even a memoir. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for his book of poetry, "Montefeltro the Hawk Nose" that references the artwork of the Italian painter Piero della F Read more…
Auctioneer:
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery
Date:
2015-03-21
