IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware

  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware
  • IRONABESHIMA YASAIZUKUSHIMON SHAKUSARA (Plate with multi-coloured overglazed enamel) Nabeshima ware

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Ceramic Feature

Ironabeshima Yasaizukushimon Shaku Sara (色鍋島野菜尽し文尺皿)

This is a Nabeshima ware dish which Kawasoe-san has created.
Overpainting with three colors of red,yellow and green, after drawing a thin outline of pattern.
It's a design with a wish for abundant crop.

30 centimeters in diameter.
Comes with a plate stand like the photo above.
The dish is also good for decoration in the room.

Iro Nabeshima (色鍋島)
- A porcelain vividly colored in red, green, and yellow of Nabeshima ware-

It refers to the skill of making colored porcelain.
Red, green, and yellow , those three colors are mainly used.
Traditional Japanese style geometry design, flowers, historic sites and others.

Colored porcelain made in the Nabeshima kiln is generally called iro-Nabeshima style.
It was Nabeshima-Hanyo which was founded as a directly managed business for Saga-Nabeshima domain.
A wide variety of ceramics are made such as ironabehsima, sometsuke and seiji as a gift to the lord.
In other words, a special works does not concern profitability.

It's said that the baked pottery in Mt. Okawachi were one of the excellent one in the mid-Edo period.
It's still passed down as a hidden treasure even today.
Kosen-gama has a workshop in Okawachi-cho.

Kawasoe-san also preserves the technique and works hard to make ceramics that's suitable for today's life.

Size

Height : 4.5 cm
Diameter : 30 cm

Artist Introduction

KAWASOE, Takahiko

KAWASOE, Takahiko

He lives in Okawachi-cho, Imari-shi and makes celadon, overglaze enamel and blue-and-white porcelain. Longstanding Imari's culture can be felt.

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Price:
¥198,000 JPY