Hideaki Miyamura
American, born Japan, born 1955Bowl, n.d.
Not on view
Stoneware
Dimensions3 1/8 × 10 3/4 in. (7.9 × 27.3 cm)
Gift of Sidney Swidler, 2017.78
While researching ceramic history Hideaki Miyamura saw a photograph of a rare Chinese teabowl with an iridescent crystaline glaze. He was fascinated with re-creating the bowl's luminous quality and spent the next five years developing hundreds of iridescent glazes. This luster is created by using bismuth silver nitrate.
