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Shoji Hamada
Large bowl
1929
Stoneware, iron glaze with a resist design.
11 cm (4 3/8 in.) high, 35.6 cm (14 in.) diameter
Together with handwritten card inscribed Hamada/Lg decorated Bowl/1929 - Mashiko and signed Janet Leach with printed Janet Leach and Leach Pottery seals.
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In 1929 Shoji Hamada returned to the UK where he, along with Bernard Leach and the philosopher Soetsu Yanagi, visited Michael Cardew at Winchcombe. During their visit, Hamada demonstrated to Cardew how to use finger-drawn decoration on his pots, a technique which was to become an important part of the Winchcombe repertoire.