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(coming soon) Stoneware kabin signed by Sakai Yoshito, Goshōen-gama, sgraffito peony, with shiori documentation and tomobako, Shōwa period
I work through my finds in small batches as each piece takes time to research, photograph and write properly. But some items are too good to sit invisible in the backlog, and if you have been looking for a significant piece of Shōwa-period award winning studio pottery, I want you to know this one exists.
This is a stoneware kabin (flower vase) by Sakai Yoshito (酒井芳人), second-generation master of the Goshōen-gama kiln in Tobe Town, Ehime Prefecture. He signed his work under the name Yoshimi (芳美), which is the name on the base and on the tomobako. The vase is approximately 30 cm tall and weighs 1.723 kg: a substantial object. Dark iron glaze covers roughly half the surface; where it has been cut through, a large peony composition emerges in the ochre clay beneath.
The piece dates from ca. 1975, the year Yoshito received the Japan Foundation President's Prize at the Japan Ceramics Exhibition. Later in his career he received the Minister of Education's Prize at the Nitten, Japan's foremost fine arts exhibition, and was designated Tobe Town Intangible Cultural Property. The original tomobako and exhibition documentation are included.
The full listing, photographs and price will follow. Want to know the moment it goes live? Scroll down.
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I work through my finds in small batches as each piece takes time to research, photograph and write properly. But some items are too good to sit invisible in the backlog, and if you have been looking for a significant piece of Shōwa-period award winning studio pottery, I want you to know this one exists.
This is a stoneware kabin (flower vase) by Sakai Yoshito (酒井芳人), second-generation master of the Goshōen-gama kiln in Tobe Town, Ehime Prefecture. He signed his work under the name Yoshimi (芳美), which is the name on the base and on the tomobako. The vase is approximately 30 cm tall and weighs 1.723 kg: a substantial object. Dark iron glaze covers roughly half the surface; where it has been cut through, a large peony composition emerges in the ochre clay beneath.
The piece dates from ca. 1975, the year Yoshito received the Japan Foundation President's Prize at the Japan Ceramics Exhibition. Later in his career he received the Minister of Education's Prize at the Nitten, Japan's foremost fine arts exhibition, and was designated Tobe Town Intangible Cultural Property. The original tomobako and exhibition documentation are included.
The full listing, photographs and price will follow. Want to know the moment it goes live? Scroll down.
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