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SEIHAKUJI CHORYUMON CHAWAN (Bluish-white Porcelain Tea Bowl with Sea Current design) Kyoto ware
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Ceramic Feature
Seihakuji Choryumon Chawan (青白磁潮流文茶碗)
This is a Kyoto ware tea bowl which Higuchi-san has created.
Potter's wheel throwing to shape.
Firing in the electric kiln.
The tea bowl is used for the Japanese tea ceremony.
The patterns are emerged diagonally, and it also has the user-friendly comfort in having in hands.
Seihakuji (青白磁)
It's one kind of hakuji, there's the pale blue-green color caused by subtle amount of iron.
The transparent color that blends into nature is really impressive on the whole.
It's all started with baked works in China.
The glaze containing iron turns to light blue by reduction firing.
Size
Height : 8.3 cm
Width : 12 cm
Length : 11 cm
Artist Introduction
HIGUCHI, Kuniharu
(Kyoto artist)
He has learned pottery in Kyoto, then moved to Nara prefecture. A series of "choryu" with the scene that reminds us design of the swirling current in the Naruto Strait.
- Price:
- ￥132,000 JPY
