Hitomi Hosono sales to public collections

SALES TO PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, Aberdeen

Oriental Museum, Durham University, Durham

The British Museum, London

The Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Château Borély, Musée des arts décoratifs, de la faïence et de la mode, Marseille, France

Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Paris, France

Porzellanikon – Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, Selb, Germany

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hitomi Hosono's work at the British Museum

Manga – new body of work by Hitomi Hosono

Wednesday 12 June 2019Contemporary, Exhibitions, Public Collections

Hitomi Hosono is primarily known for her intricate, lace-like porcelain sculptures which can be seen in private and public collections around the world. However, her playfully expressive manga work is now taking centre-stage at a new exhibition at the British Museum. A global phenomenon, manga are Japanese comics or graphic novels and Hitomi grew […]

Indianapolis Museum of Art purchase ‘A Very Large Feather Leaves Bowl’ by Hitomi Hosono

Friday 12 April 2019Contemporary, Public Collections

We are delighted to announce that the Indianapolis Museum of Art have purchased A Very Large Feather Leaves Bowl by Hitomi Hosono. “My technique was initially inspired by Wedgwood’s Jasperware, pioneered by Josiah Wedgwood over 200 years ago, in which thin ceramic reliefs or ‘sprigs’ were applied as surface decoration to a piece. First, I […]

The British Museum acquires ‘Shoka Vase’, by Hitomi Hosono

Contemporary, Public Collections

We are delighted to announce that the British Museum have acquired Shoka Vase, by Hitomi Hosono. The vase takes its form from the revered Portland Vase and now sits in a cabinet alongside an 18th Century ‘copy’ made by Josiah Wedgwood. Hosono designed and worked with the master craftsmen at Wedgwood to make an edition […]

Two Sculptures by Hitomi Hosono and one by Robin Best

The Château Borély Museum purchase two vases by Hitomi Hosono and a sculpture by Robin Best

Thursday 9 August 2018Contemporary, Public Collections

We are delighted to announce that Château Borély in Marseille have purchased A Black Leaves Tower, 2015, An English Daisy and Rose Vase, 2016 by Hitomi Hosono and Harold, 2016 by Robin Best. The two works by Hitomi Hosono showcase two totally different strands of her work both in the use of white and black porcelain as […]

A Leaves Bowl, 2016, by Hitomi Hosono is purchased by Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Monday 15 May 2017Contemporary, Public Collections

This moulded, carved and hand-built porcelain bowl with an interior of fine ‘dancing sprigs’ was bought by LACMA in 2016 following our exhibition at the Salon of Art and Design in New York.

Hitomi Hosono’s Zenmai Bowl, 2016, acquired by Musée Guimet

Friday 24 June 2016Contemporary, Public Collections

As one of the largest collections of Asian Art outside Asia, this moulded, carved and hand-built porcelain bowl with yellow gold leaf interior has found the perfect home in the Musée Guimet, Paris.

Sculpture by Hitomi Hosono at the British Museum

British Museum Purchases Major Work By Hitomi Hosono

Wednesday 11 December 2013Contemporary, Public Collections

This is the largest Feather Leaves Bowl that Hitomi Hosono has ever made and took her almost two years to complete