FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)

  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)
  • FUYUGINGA CHAWAN TENMOKU (Tea Bowl with Winter Galaxy glaze)

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Ceramic Feature

Fuyu Ginga Chawan Tenmoku (冬銀河茶碗 - 天目 - )

This is the Gingayu glaze tea bowl which Tetsuaki-san has created.
The overall thickness of the bowl is thin, you are supposed to be amazed at how light it lifts.
A pattern which looks like snow crystals has emerged on the whole.

Tenmoku Chawan
People used to hold a Tenmoku tea bowl to drink Japanese tea.
Some imitated those bowls imported from China in a Japanese style.
Its feature is the following
- Low footring
- Unglazed footring, showing the soil
- Funnel-shaped
- Mouth Being tapered in the middle, then warped upwards
Tenmoku is still beautiful and valuable.

Fuyu-Ginga (冬銀河)
Fuyu refers to winter of the four seasons in Japanese.
A pattern that combines the white and the silver color of snow and frost.
Sometimes pure, Sometimes mild.
The design is so pure that it makes you feel different things.

Size

Height : 6.8 cm
Diameter : 12.3 cm

Artist Introduction

NAKAO, Tetsuaki

NAKAO, Tetsuaki

Tetsuaki-san has developed the original glaze named gingayu with star-studded design. One of his artworks was featured on the CHRISTIE'S.

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Price:
¥231,000 JPY