Masterpiece Bizen Chawan by Harada Shuroku
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Only a master of aesthetics and a hermit could put his tea bowl together, here an amazing work by Harada Shuroku enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Chawan. Superb organic form displaying dark and awe inspiring, it shows to dramatic effect the path of flame in the kiln through the streaks of crusted ash and hi-iro on the sides interspersed with Shiso-iro gray-purple clay, and it might take eight hands to hold this masterpiece.
Size, D 15.1 cm H 10.3 cm
Condition, Excellent
A graduate of the prestigious Meiji University Agricultural Department, Harada Shuroko began to work with clay in 1969. He eschews the world of public exhibitions for the intimacy of private viewings. He is recipient of the Japan Ceramics Society Award, one of the most coveted and meaningful in Japan.
Only a master of aesthetics and a hermit could put his tea bowl together, here an amazing work by Harada Shuroku enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Chawan. Superb organic form displaying dark and awe inspiring, it shows to dramatic effect the path of flame in the kiln through the streaks of crusted ash and hi-iro on the sides interspersed with Shiso-iro gray-purple clay, and it might take eight hands to hold this masterpiece.
Size, D 15.1 cm H 10.3 cm
Condition, Excellent
A graduate of the prestigious Meiji University Agricultural Department, Harada Shuroko began to work with clay in 1969. He eschews the world of public exhibitions for the intimacy of private viewings. He is recipient of the Japan Ceramics Society Award, one of the most coveted and meaningful in Japan.
