Pursuit of an Ideal: Fine Japanese Works of Art
Pursuit of an Ideal: Fine Japanese Works of Art
Property of a European Collector and Thence by Descent
Lot Closed
November 5, 04:17 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Shimaoka Tatsuzo (1917-2007)
A large stoneware bottle vase
Showa period, 20th century
the oviform vase with tapering shoulder and everted neck, decorated overall with a radial inlaid rope pattern on a bluish-white ground and abstract brushed grasses motif
38.5 cm. 15⅛ in. high
Galleria Gottardo, Shimaoka Tatsuzo: Ceramics una Collezione Privata, (Lugano, 1999), the piece above is dated in the catalogue to 1986.