通次廣 片身替伊羅保茶盌 李朝 creating a dreamlike scene

creating a dreamlike scene

exuding a dignified presence reminiscent of the celebrated masterpiece “Rōsō” (Old Monk)

鼡志野のボディに、蓮の歯の上に金のカエルが描かれた台皿作品。古来より「蓮は浄土を象徴し、カエルは再生や循環の象徴」とされてきましたが、その二つを一碗の中で響き合わせることで、清らかさと生命力を同時に表現しています。まさに名工としての卓越した技術と、熟練した作家ならではの想像力が結実した逸品です。

The white glaze flows softly into the Oribe glaze

This work is a reconstruction of early Imari pottery shards using a dry lacquer technique with gold coating

通次廣 片身替伊羅保茶盌 李朝 creating a dreamlike sceneA katamigawari irabo tea bowl by the Kyoto ceramic artist Tsji Hiroshi. The body, subtly distorted in form and shaped with a pooling hollow at the front, is divided between two glazes: irabo glaze and ido glaze. In places, the irabo glaze develops a strong green tone, while the transparent ido glaze allows the character of the clay to emerge. Where the two overlap, the surface shifts into a faint bluish white, creating a layered landscape of three