This is a work of huge presence in which the energy of its maker – Kyoto potter Murakoshi Takuma – can be felt though its visual impact, textural complexity and massive solidity. Murakoshi has worked with his preferred rough Shigaraki clay to hand build the thickly potted form. First fired on one side, supported in the kiln using the traditional seashell method, and coated with a thick, white, unctuous, foaming feldspar glaze, the form has become gently distorted through its sheer weight. Firing a second time on its opposite side a delicate, thin, ash glaze cascades across the form with rivulets terminating in vivid green globules. Through both glazes appear areas of unglazed clay showing the distinctive high-fired, red hi-iro flame colour. It is a work that embodies both intense human ambition and the random effects of the kiln firing, brought together to powerful and magnificent effect. As it ages through use, it is a work that will come to epitomise the concept of wabi sabi.
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TSUBO by MURAKOSHI Takuma (b.1954)
£3,600.00
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Description
TSUBO
by MURAKOSHI Takuma (b.1954)
Reiwa period, 2019
Glazed stoneware, shigaraki clay
30/34 (irreg.dia.) x 39 (h) cm.
This is a work of huge presence in which the energy of its maker – Kyoto potter Murakoshi Takuma – can be felt though its visual impact, textural complexity and massive solidity. Murakoshi has worked with his preferred rough Shigaraki clay to hand build the thickly potted form. First fired on one side, supported in the kiln using the traditional seashell method, and coated with a thick, white, unctuous, foaming feldspar glaze, the form has become gently distorted through its sheer weight. Firing a second time on its opposite side a delicate, thin, ash glaze cascades across the form with rivulets terminating in vivid green globules. Through both glazes appear areas of unglazed clay showing the distinctive high-fired, red hi-iro flame colour. It is a work that embodies both intense human ambition and the random effects of the kiln firing, brought together to powerful and magnificent effect. As it ages through use, it is a work that will come to epitomise the concept of wabi sabi.
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