Ceramic Sculpture/Vase
2026
Uji clay, wheel-thrown, white slip, poured Geppaku glaze made from rice-straw ash, fired in a traditional noborigama climbing kiln using split pine wood, finished with gold overglaze decoration
26.2 x 13.5 cm (10.31 x 5.31 in)
Unique piece, accompanied by a tomobako (custom wooden box), inscribed by the artist
A flower vessel 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, the primitive presence of the clay, and the white slip that binds these elements together resolve into kirei sabi.
Matsubayashi Hosai XVI (b. 1980, Uji, Kyoto) is a ceramic artist and the sixteenth-generation head of the Asahiyaki kiln, which […]
