Jim Greig Stoneware Vase with Poured Jun Glaze

Jim Greig, solid and void form, stoneware with extensive poured jun glaze to the shoulders, incised signature and dated 1980 to the base, 55 x 57 cm. Exhibited: James Greig: Defying Gravity, Dowse Art Museum, December 2016 - March 2017. Note: James Greig, 1936-1986, was an internationally recognised New Zealand ceramic artist and was appointed a cultural ambassador to Japan by the New Zealand Government. Works are held in collections around the world including Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Japanese Imperial household and the United Nations Headquarters in New York . He had the distinction of being the first ever foreigner to be included in that most prestigious of Japanese ceramics exhibitions: Tachibana- ten: one hundred Best Potters in 1977 and Mr Haseke, Chief Curator of the National Museum of modern Art in Tokyo, said of him in 1985 that he wished Greig's entire collection could be purchased for the Museum. Two memorial exhibitions of his work were held in Japan, something unprecedented at that time.