AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware

  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO CHAWAN (Indigo Shino type Tea Bowl) Mino ware

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Ceramic Feature

Aiiro Shino Chawan (藍色志野茶碗)

This is a Mino ware tea bowl which Sakai-san has created.
The characteristic of low footring.

Aiiro Shino (藍色志野)
The technique called nezumi-shino.
It's one kind of Mino-yaki.
He got a hint from that.
Applying cobalt-blue slip between glaze and clay.
It reaches to a gentle and elegant pattern.

Kairagi (梅皮花)
Pattern -
Cracks like shark's skin like the picture above.
It has occured to shrinkage of glaze after being fired in a kiln.
It's also called kannyu in Japanese.
That's anything but broken, certailny available.
Sakai-san wants users to see the tension that the pattern brings.

Size

Height : 9.2 cm
Diameter : 12.3 cm

Artist Introduction

SAKAI, Hiroshi

SAKAI, Hiroshi
(Mino artist)

Sakai-san has learned ceramic a lot under Kato Kozo who is the living national treasure, setoguro. He creates a new type of Shino-yaki in his own individuality.

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Price:
¥330,000 JPY