Ceramic Tea Bowl/Sculpture
2026
Uji clay, wheel-thrown, white slip, Geppaku Nagashi — Geppaku glaze, made from rice-straw ash, poured over the form, fired in a traditional noborigama climbing kiln using split pine wood, finished with gold overglaze decoration
8 x 11,2 x 11,6 cm (3.15 x 4.41 x 4.57 in)
Unique piece, accompanied by a tomobako (custom wooden box), inscribed by the artist
A chawan in the signature style of Hosai XVI: geppaku glaze poured over the form with overglaze gold. Perhaps the fullest expression of a contemporary kirei sabi. The flourish of the gold, the crisp aqueous blue of the poured geppaku glaze, the primitive presence of the clay, and the white slip that binds these elements together resolve into kirei sabi.
Born in 1980 in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, ceramicist Matsubayashi Hosai XVI comes from a family with over 400 years of […]
