Ceramic Tea Bowl/Sculpture
2026
Uji clay, wheel-thrown, kohiki white slip on the exterior, ash glaze, black glaze on the interior, fired in a traditional noborigama climbing kiln using split pine wood, finished with platinum overglaze decoration
8,3 x 12,2 x 11,5 cm (3.27 x 4.8 x 4.53 in)
Unique piece, signed by the artist
White on the outside, black within—a chawan that draws two contrasting states into a single vessel under the concept of yin and yang. Modern in bearing, it holds within the hand the ordering principle of the world. In East Asian thought, yin and yang are not a fixed binary but a shifting relation; the overglaze platinum registers those subtle fluctuations.
Born in 1980 in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, ceramicist Matsubayashi Hosai XVI comes from a family with over 400 years of […]
