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Lot 221
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Lot 221 · Ceramics · H 10 cm花器
TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER “KORO” IN THE WABI-SABI STYLE
Estimate
5 000 – 8 000 ₽
- Material
Ceramics, hand-formed, textured bubbled glaze.
- Period
Second half of the 20th century.
- Dimensions
Height — 10 cm.
- Description
An interior incense burner vessel (koro) on three relief feet, in the 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. The body is covered with a dense foamy-white glaze with an expressive porous texture and dark flecks. The natural terracotta clay is left exposed on the lower cut edges of the feet.
- Marks
No artist’s mark (underscoring the authentic artisanal character of the piece).