TEABOWL

a. Tan coloured teabowl with an uneven, all-over glaze of white brushed roughly over it giving a pink appearance in places. The bowl is slightly irregular in height suggesting hand production. The foot and a triangular area surrounding it are unglazed and the potter's mark in a circular seal is impressed at the apex. b. Pine box with removable lid and Japanese characters in black and red. 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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