Vase, green glaze with diagonal striation, by Kazuo Akiyama, Japan
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Directory: Artists: Ceramics: Pottery: Vases: Pre 2000: Item # 1475170
Directory: Artists: Ceramics: Pottery: Vases: Pre 2000: Item # 1475170
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$300.00
Flower vase with angular shoulder and angular hip, slightly curving in on the sides and standing on a bamboo node foot. Heavy but fine gray stoneware that turned reddish brown upon firing, covered with a celadon green glaze with curved striations made by tracing with his finger. The places where the glaze is scraped back to the stoneware, the clay turned red-brown during firing. Neck covered in cream-colored glaze, inside brown speckled glaze, all typical for Mashiko.
Mingei
Mashiko ware, Japan, late Showa or Heisei era
Vase unsigned
H 8 x diam ca. 4.25 in.
Mint condition
Comes with the original tomobako storage box. Cover inscribed on inside: Flower vase with design of finger-drawing in 2 colors and signed Kazuo with red seal Aki (in mirror image). Cover somewhat damaged.
Akiyama Kazuo (b. 1933) is an artist who started as a painter and changed to ceramic arts in 1960. Worked in the Mashiko tradition and has/had his own kiln.
