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Bizen Vase by Isezaki Mitsuru browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 2000: item # 537955 Please refer to our stock # TCR1824 when inquiring.
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| A faceted dark Bizen vase by representative artist Isezaki Mitsuru (b. 1934) enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. Each face is different, one covered in the charred pebble texture known as gomakasu, which fades to a smooth dark coal on the next, then a face divided with the violent gomakasu and smooth scorch marks on the shiny red clay, and last a face with three eyelets and a smattering of gray ash glaze at the lip. Three firing cracks extend from the mouth of the vase outward to the corners, creating a sense of power as one who has come victorious from the flames. The vase is 8-1/2 inches 822 cm) tall, roughly 4-1/4 inches (11 cm) square at the base. Mitsuru was born to a family of potters, his father Yozan and brother Jun both very important in Bizen pottery. In 1998 Mitsuru was named a Prefectural Living National Treasure for Okayama. | ||||||||||||
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