Description: 
This is a Sigaraki-ware(*) vase made by the most reputable contemporary Shigaraki-ware pottery artist in the last few decades. This vase shows the ultimate attractiveness of Shigaraki-ware in its most simple, authentic and traditional ways. Full of Wabi-Sabi taste. Please review the pictures. All colors were naturally developed in his kiln, i.e., no glaze was used at all.  

* Shigaraki-ware is a stoneware, which is made of a special clay (available only in Shigaraki) and fired at very high temperature (1,250~1,300 degrees Celsius). It does not use or apply any glaze before firing. The glaze is naturally formed in the kiln when certain conditions met from ash of red pine tree and feldspar / iron contained in the clay. Thus, it looks very natural and primitive. And not sure how it looks until it comes out from the kiln. Stoneware is still produced in Japan, because it is loved by the people who practice tea ceremony and Ikebana flower arrangement. 

The artist is Kiyotsugu SAWA (1948 ~ 澤清嗣 in Japanese). He has been the most reputable Shigaraki-ware pottery artist in the last few decades. He often represented Shigaraki-ware artists in TV, books and magazines. 

It is in excellent condition. Seems not used. As shown by the first and the last three pictures, it came with the original wooden box and a piece of cloth.  Kiyotsugu signed on the box and put his seal on the box and the cloth. 

Approximate Size & Weight:  Height:  25.0 cm / 9.8 in     Diameter:  15.5 cm / 6.1 in     Weight:  1,675 gr / 59.0 oz

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