MORI TŌGAKU
Fired in Sabukaze Great Kiln
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MORI TŌGAKU (b. 1937)
Object: Unglazed Bizen earthenware vessel with rope-impressed, ovoid-shaped body, scalloped mouth, and marbleized red and purple designs made with iron-oxide red pigments
Date: 1984
Media: Unglazed marbleized earthenware with anhydrous and hydrated iron oxide red pigments; Fired in Sabukaze Great Kiln
Dimensions: 8 1/8 x 6 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.
Potter's mark: Artist's mark stamped on bottom
Box title: 彩土器 (Saidoki); Colorful Earthenware Vessel
Box signature: 陶岳 (Tōgaku); Tōgaku
Box seal: 陶岳 (Tōgaku)
寒風 (Sabukaze); Name of the artist's kiln
Price: $ 8,900
Other examples of Saidoki:
Mori Tōgaku no zenbōten: Akunaki chosen no kiseki [Complete Picture of Mori Tōgaku: Trajectory of Insatiable Challenges]. Okayama: Setouchi City Museum, 2016, pp. 69-70, 72-74.
References:
Earle, Joe. New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017, pp. 28-29.
Mori Tōgaku. Vol. 49 of Toh. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1992.
Shimizu, Christine. Tōji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Cèramique Japonaise. Paris: Editions de la rèunion des musèes nationaux, 2006, p. 199-201.
Literature
Other examples of Saidoki:Mori Tōgaku no zenbōten: Akunaki chosen no kiseki [Complete Picture of Mori Tōgaku: Trajectory of Insatiable Challenges]. Okayama: Setouchi City Museum, 2016, pp. 69-70, 72-74.
References:
Earle, Joe. New Forms, New Voices: Japanese Ceramics from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2017, pp. 28-29.
Mori Tōgaku. Vol. 49 of Toh. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1992.
Shimizu, Christine. Tōji: Avant-Garde et Tradition de la Cèramique Japonaise. Paris: Editions de la rèunion des musèes nationaux, 2006, p. 199-201.