The Stratford Gallery - the Japanese collection

The Stratford Gallery have moved to Broadway.

We visited on our first day after self-isolation and it was such a pleasure to be able to look and touch their new collection.

We started our exploration from the third floor, the attic, where the Japanese collection is housed. The works here were curated by Rob Fornell who has selected works that are in some degree a new interpretation of the Japanese tradition in ceramics.

This is only a small selection of what was on show.

Akiko HIrai, Cocoon, (white vase with bud ash, stoneware)

Hiroshi Yamada, Shino Chawan (Echizen hand dug clay body, anagama fired)

Hiroshi Yamada, Ebi (Wild Grape) Shino chawan, (Echizen Hand Dug Clay Body, fas fired with Feidsar Onita details)

Hiroshi Yamada, Shino chawan, (Echizen hand dug clay body, anagama fired)

Hiroshi Yamada, Setoguro (Black-Seto) chawan Hikidashi, (Ecbizen hand dug clay body, natural ash and iron glaze)

This piece had no label as the gallery had only opened the week before and labelling of the pieces was still not completed

Akihiro NIkaido, White Yakishime Vase, Nara period style, (red clay body with white slip, hand built, reduction fired in oil)

Takashi Tanimoto, Raku chawan, (Iga clay body, Frit glaze, oil and charcoal fired)

Takashi Tanimoto, Iga Chawan, (Iga clay body, natural ash glaze, oil and wood fired)

Takashi Tanimoto, Iga Chawan, (Iga clay body, Feldspar, natural ash glaze, oil and wood fired)

Take Nanimoto. Iga Vase,(Iga Clay Body, Feldspar, natural ash glaze, oil and wood fired)

Kiyoshi Yamato, Engraved Vase, (red and white clay body with alumina glaze, gas fired)

Kiyoshi Yamato, Mottled Ash Glaze Vase, (Noborigama fired, red clay body with straw ash glaze)

Kiyoshi Yamato, White Hagi Chawan, (Hagi clay body)

Kiyoshi Yamato, White Hagi Floer Vase, (Noborigama fired red clay body with white Hagi straw ash glaze)

Shigemasa Higashida, Shino Guinomi, (stoneware)

Akira Satake, Tokkuri, (wood fired stoneware)

HikidashinYunomi, (wood fired stoneware)

Tokkuri, (stone fired stoneware)

Masamcichi Yoshikawa, Oribe style chawan, Seihakuji glaze, porcelain

Masamichi Yoshikawa, Oribe style Sakazuki, (Seihakuji glaze, porcelain) 

Akhiko Watanabe, Celadon guinomi (wood fired in a sagar)

Akihiko Watanabe, Guinomi Anagama (wood fired in a sagger with celadon glaze)

Akhiko Watanabe, Tokkuri (Anamgama fired in a sagger with celadon)

Mami Kato, Chokoku Katachi, (sculptural form in porcelain)

Mami Kato, Katakuchi, (porcelain, ice glaze)

Mami Kato, Chawan, (porcelain, ice glaze)

Mami Kato, Guinomi, (porcelain, ice glaze)

Mami Kato, Vase, (porcelain, ice glaze)

Mami Kato, Guinomi, (pocelain, ice glaze)

Mami Kato, Chokoku Katachi, (sculptural form in porcelain) 

looking in.

Mizuyo Yamashita, Core Vessel Set

Mazuyo Yamashita, Core Vessel Set

Mitzuyo Yamashita, Mentori Vases, (stoneware)