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Square Vase with Bull-Headed Shrikes on Tree Branches, ca 2000

Creator: Takegoshi Jun
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Takegoshi Jun
Square Vase with Bull-Headed Shrikes on Tree Branches, ca 2000
Porcelain with underglaze blue and enamels
Size 13½ x 5 x 5 in. (34.5 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm)
T-4948
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue Take and in enemal seal-mark Jun

Comes with the original fitted paulownia-wood storage box, the cover inscribed Mozu no e no kazaribin (Decorative vase with picture of a bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus)), and signed Jun with seal Takegoshi Jun no in (seal of Jun Takegoshi Jun)

Born in Ishikawa as the eldest son of Takegoshi Taizan III (1919-1984), who was a master of Kutani ware, Takegoshi Jun inherited and continued the traditional techniques of his family. He masterfully paints his hand-formed vessels with birds and flowers in brilliant colors, typical of ko-Kutani.

He graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in 1972, majoring in Japanese traditional painting. After working as the head of the ceramics design department at a vocational training school and traveling abroad, he became a potter in 1973. He studied under his father Taizan and Kitade Fujio. He is a member of Nitten and has been awarded the Honorable Mention at the Japan New Craft Exhibition. He received the highest award and commission from the Prefectural Contemporary Art Exhibition. He is director of the Prefectural Ceramic Association.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	2000-2021
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Incollect Reference #:	743508

Dimensions

W.	5 in;	H.	13.5 in;	D.	5 in;
W.	12.7 cm;	H.	34.29 cm;	D.	12.7 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.