TEABOWL, ceramic

a. Deep ceramic bowl, blue on outer rim blending in bands to mid green with dark grey speckling on outside. Foot is unglazed and uncoloured. On inside, a blue rim merges to green then to an irregularly rounded pink and ochre area with some speckling on the sides. There are Japanese characters in a small, circular seal to one side of the foot. b. Green cardboard box with white, repeated all-over flower pattern. This item, together with a number of other articles, was presented to the W.A.government following the Sister State agreement between it and the Hyogo State Prefecture on 23 June 1981. The original Hyogo exhibition, set up in mid June in the Allendale Square, was essentially a trade exhibition but Sir Charles Court, the Premier of Western Australia, assured Governor Tokitada Sakai of Japan's Hyogo Prefecture that the exhibits would be used to set up a permanent display, a memento of the Sister State relationship. A part of the Beaufort Street Gallery was set aside for this purpose and the items remained there from 1981 until refurbishing of museum areas in 1989.

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