Porcelain body, metal glaze, kinzoku, brass handle
9 dia. x 8.5/17 (h) cm
Signed tomobako
This piece of timeless elegance – strikingly contemporary, while exhibiting archaic qualities – is the graduation piece of Chinese potter Tsz Mei Li, and was exhibited at the Gifu Museum of Modern Ceramic Art as part of the 2020 Graduate Show of the Tajimi Ceramics Research Facility, ishoken.
Li, born in Hong Kong, first graduated in ceramics from the Hong Kong Art School in 2018 before moving to Japan to further her studies. In focusing on the central ritual of tea drinking she bridges the cultures of China and Japan. The form of the piece – a top-handled teapot – is essentially Japanese, as seen in the traditional cast-iron tetsubin used for boiling water for tea. In its presentation it is also reminiscent of archaic metal vessels, with allusions to oxidisation, the finely moulded lid with finial, and a densely textured golden surface.
But, with the exception of the hand-formed metal handle, the whole is ceramic. Opening the lid reveals its delicate formation and, on the underside, the pure white of its raw porcelain. The body of the interior carries a rich blue glaze that brings to mind the historic precedent of an enamelled finish on a metal form.
Tsz Mei Li is representative of the next generation of talented young East Asian artists continuing long held traditions while challenging conventions.
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TEA POT uwade kyusu by LI Tsz Mei (b. 1996)
£1,400.00
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Description
TEA POT uwade kyusu
by LI Tsz Mei (b. 1996)
Reiwa period, 2020
Porcelain body, metal glaze, kinzoku, brass handle
9 dia. x 8.5/17 (h) cm
Signed tomobako
This piece of timeless elegance – strikingly contemporary, while exhibiting archaic qualities – is the graduation piece of Chinese potter Tsz Mei Li, and was exhibited at the Gifu Museum of Modern Ceramic Art as part of the 2020 Graduate Show of the Tajimi Ceramics Research Facility, ishoken.
Li, born in Hong Kong, first graduated in ceramics from the Hong Kong Art School in 2018 before moving to Japan to further her studies. In focusing on the central ritual of tea drinking she bridges the cultures of China and Japan. The form of the piece – a top-handled teapot – is essentially Japanese, as seen in the traditional cast-iron tetsubin used for boiling water for tea. In its presentation it is also reminiscent of archaic metal vessels, with allusions to oxidisation, the finely moulded lid with finial, and a densely textured golden surface.
But, with the exception of the hand-formed metal handle, the whole is ceramic. Opening the lid reveals its delicate formation and, on the underside, the pure white of its raw porcelain. The body of the interior carries a rich blue glaze that brings to mind the historic precedent of an enamelled finish on a metal form.
Tsz Mei Li is representative of the next generation of talented young East Asian artists continuing long held traditions while challenging conventions.
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