VESSEL, Pottery

Raku vessel, possibly a vase. On its opposite sides the neck is scooped with a decorative connecting bar between. The glaze completely covers the vessel in colours of burnt red with some horizontal black rings. There is a random pattern in ochre on the bar and around the cut-away rim,extending also down the outer sides of vessel beneath the scooped neck. Japanese characters have been etched into the glazed base. 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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