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Lot 205 · Ceramics · H 21 cm花器
INTERIOR SPHERICAL VASE (KABIN)
Shigaraki ceramics. Showa period (third quarter of the 20th century), ash glaze, kiln firing.
Estimate
16 000 – 20 000 ₽
- Dimensions
height — 21 cm, neck diameter — 11 cm.
- Description
A vintage interior vase of spherical maru-tsubo form, made in the celebrated traditional Shigaraki technique — one of the “Six Ancient Kilns of Japan” (Rokkoyo). The piece has a pronounced wabi-sabiWabi-sabi 侘寂 — a key Japanese aesthetic concept that prescribes valuing true beauty in its transience, incompleteness and noble imperfection (asymmetry, traces of time, roughness of texture). aesthetic, showing natural fire scorching and the noble rough texture of the clay.
- Marks
On the flat base, the master’s mark is impressed.