Japan: Art and Its Essence
Japan: Art and Its Essence
Property from an Important Private Collection
Tsujimura Shiro (b. 1947) | Leaf-shaped dish
Lot Closed
July 26, 01:15 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection
Tsujimura Shiro (b. 1947)
Leaf-shaped dish
in the form of a magnolia leaf (hoba), reddish clay body with green glaze; fitted wood storage box (tomobako), signed Shiro, sealed Shi, inscribed Yakishime ha-zara (High-fired unglazed leaf dish)
33 cm., 13 in. long (the dish)
11.5 x 38.5 x 29 cm., 4½ x 15¼ x 11½ in. (the fitted wood strorage box)
Purchased from the artist
The reddish-brown stoneware body draws from traditional medieval Bizen ware production. The small serving dish for food is formed by moulding two clay slabs around a magnolia leaf. Using a roller, the veins of the leaf are then impressed onto the clay, resulting in a naturalistically rendered model of a leaf. The body is divided by the unglazed reddish clay to one side and natural ash green glaze to the other, giving the overall appearance of a decaying leaf partly reddened at the approach of autumn.