TEABOWL and BOX

a. Black teabowl, slightly irregular in form with some scratches under the glaze and one small extrusion denoting hand production. Craftsman's seal or mark to one side of the foot is unglazed but hard to discern. The interior lip is black, blending to grey with some black veining and one larger black area. b. Green cardboard box with a repeated pattern featuring rows of a white, four petalled flower. 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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