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Hagi-Ware Flask, ca 1988

Creator: Yamato Yasuo
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Yamato Yasuo
Hagi-Ware Flask, ca 1988
Stoneware
Size 12¾ x 12½ 4½ in. (32.5 x 32 x 11.5 cm)
T-4820

A stoneware flask with flat, almost circular sides, the shoulder and mouth with striking red, ocher, and gray flame-marks, the base marked Yasu

Comes with a wood tomobako storage box, inscribed outside Hagi ensai henko Yasuo saku (Hagi flame-colored flask, made by Yasuo) and sealed Yasuo; printed biography with concluding date of 1988; invoice dated April 28, 2000

The grandson of Yamato Sakutarō (1855–1921), a founding father of early-modern ceramics in the historic ceramic center of Hagi in western Honshu, Yamato Yasuo— one of several contemporary Hagi potters who have challenged the conventions of their home town—displays work at both avant-garde and traditional exhibitions. Here he successfully combines functionality with the boldness and freedom of contemporary ceramics to conjure a powerful sculptural form.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1980-1999
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Incollect Reference #:	704750

Dimensions

W.	12.5 in;	H.	12.75 in;	D.	4.5 in;
W.	31.75 cm;	H.	32.39 cm;	D.	11.43 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.