KIYOMIZU ROKUBEI VI
Sometsuke (cobalt-blue) incense burner with bird motif and matching signed metal cover, ca. 1965
Glazed porcelain with metal cover
5 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.
$ 6,500.00
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Literature
For similar work, see:
Celebrating 77 Years Old: Kiyomizu Rokubei VI Retrospective. Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi Tokyo, Takashimaya Osaka: Nikkei Shimbun, 1978, pl. 71.
References:
The Collection and Works of Pottery Family | The Kiyomizu Rokubei Family. Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, 2013, pp. 87-106.
Kiyomizu Rokubei rekidai ten: kyō no tōgei/dentō to kakushin (Retrospective Exhibition of KIYOMIZU Rokubey I-VIII). Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art, 2004, pp. 131-158.
Rokubei Kiyomizu V and VI: A Retrospective. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2001.
Shimizu, Christine. Tōji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Céramique Japonaise. Paris: Editions de la rèunion des musèes nationaux, 2006, pp. 143-45, 150, 164.