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SOMETSUKE SHONZUI MESHIWAN (Bowl with Shonzui design in underglaze blue) Arita ware
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Ceramic Feature
Sometsuke Shonzuimon Meshiwan (染付祥瑞文飯碗)
This is an Arita ware bowl which Hidezumi-san has created.
He painted with indigo paints to express traditional pattern.
Shonzui means the combination of auspicious patterns.
Sometsuke (染付)
- A pottery with blue pictures and patterns on a white background-
It refers to the skill of blue-painting on a unglazed ceramic.
Patterns are painted with a "gosu" containing cobalt oxide that turns blue color.
And it's baked after being glazed on top of it.
Sometsuke has been made from the early days of Arita ware in 1610s.
At first it was influenced the Chinese pottery, there's a pile of efforts by potters and
today's sometsuke has one kind of exquisite beauty even in its simplicity.
Size
Height : 5.5 cm
Diameter : 11 cm
Artist Introduction
NAKAO, Hidezumi
(Arita artist)
Hidezumi-san especially likes the blue color of Arita ware sometsuke. Profoundness as a decorative expression has deeply emerged.
- Price:
- ￥13,200 JPY
