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YOKOYU KAKI (Flower Vase with Sunflower-ash glaze I) Kyoto ware
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Ceramic Feature
Yokoyu Kaki (陽向釉花器)
This is a Kyoto ware vase which Takemura-san has created.
He made the shape by throwing on the potter's wheel.
A unique glaze is used as decoration, its ingredients contain ash of sunflower which he grew.
And it has turned to yellow color with painstaking work because it is required for exquisite temperature control.
Size
Height : 24.5 cm
Width : 15 cm
Artist Introduction
TAKEMURA, Shigeo
(Kyoto artist)
Takemura-san is a ceramicist who engages in creative activities in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto prefecture. It’s interesting that color changes depending on settings, temperature and a part of plants, though same glaze is used.
- Price:
- ￥88,000 JPY
