Pair of Lidded Jars

James Kwame Amoah (b. 1943)
Agona, Ashanti Region, Ghana

Stoneware

H 20.5 × W 16 cm (approx. each)

James Kwame Amoah is a Ghanaian ceramicist who has spent over fifty years adapting traditional Akan pottery forms in a contemporary studio context. He trained at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, where he later taught in the Industrial Art Department. His wider practice draws on established Ghanaian vessel types such as the Ahina (the round Akan water pot) and the Abusua Kruwa (the family vessel), reworked in stoneware.

This pair of wheel-thrown stoneware jars is finished in two tones: one a near-black brown, the other a warmer mid-brown with subtle banding from the throwing visible across the surface.