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Flask with Maple Glaze, 1993

Creator: Katō Toyohisa
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Katō Toyohisa
Flask with Maple Glaze, 1993
Stoneware
Size 14 x 17 x 15 in. (36 x 43 x 38 cm)
T-4819

A rounded ceramic flask with a broad shoulder and low, narrow mouth, finished in a range of gradated glazes ranging from rich ruby red to eggshell blue, the base with an artist’s mark

Comes with a wood tomobako storage box, the lid inscribed outside Momijiyū henko Toyohisa (Flask with maple glaze, Toyohisa) and sealed Toyohisa ; inscribed inside Dai 37kai Mino Tōgeiten Chūnichishō jushō sakuhin (Work awarded the Chūnichi [Newspaper] Prize at the 37th Mino Ceramic Exhibition). This took place in 1993.

Born into a family manufacturing Western-style tableware, Katō studied at the Gifu Prefectural Ceramics Research Institute, a facility that has nurtured many of Japan’s leading contemporary ceramic artists. While working as a member of the family production team, he started his own creative practice and first received an exhibition award in 1983. The present work is a masterpiece from the early years of Katō’s mature period, combining an artfully potted variant of the time-honored henko flask shape with a subtly gradated glaze of his own devising.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1980-1999
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Incollect Reference #:	704749

Dimensions

W.	17 in;	H.	14 in;	D.	15 in;
W.	43.18 cm;	H.	35.56 cm;	D.	38.1 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects.