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Lot 248 · Ceramics花器
STUDIO INTERIOR VASE “MUMYOI”
Suemon-gama workshop (Suemon-gama). Artist — master Nagahama Suemon (Nagahama Suemon). Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture. Second half of the 20th century.
Mumyoi-yaki ceramics (Mumyoi ware); hand-formed on the potter's wheel, ring-shaped relief decoration, high-temperature firing.
Estimate
15 000 – 22 000 ₽
- Named master
- Dimensions
height c. 15 cm
- Description
A studio interior vase of elongated form with a pronounced relief neck and noble dark bands of ring-shaped rouletting on the body. Made of the unique iron-rich red Mumyoi clay, dug near the old gold mines of Sado Island. The vase is of high collector's value, possesses a marked 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, and is offered in the fullest collector's set: the original black presentation box with a silk lining, a protective yellow cotton cloth (ukon-nuno) with the artist's stamp, and two rare authentic inserts with the creative biographies (略歴) of the workshop's founder Nagahama Suemon and of his son, the master Nagahama Kazuyoshi.
- Marks
On the flat base of the vase a deep artist's stamp is cut by hand, with the first characters of his name — 「数右」 (Suemon / Sue).