MORI TŌGAKU
Fired in Sabukaze Great Kiln
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MORI TŌGAKU (b. 1937)
Object:
Brownish-black porcelaneous stoneware vessel with triangular faceting and triangular mouthDate: 1989
Media: Unglazed porcelaneous stoneware
Potter's mark: Artist's mark in shape of plum blossom stamped on bottom
Box title: 黒瓷多面壷 (Kokuji tamenko); Multiple-sided Vessel of Black Porcelaneous Stoneware
平成元年十一月 (Heisei gannen jūichigatsu); November, 1989
Box signature: 陶岳 (Tōgaku)
Box seal: 陶岳 (Tōgaku)
寒風 (Sabukaze); (name of kiln)
Price: $ 32,000
Other examples of Kokuji vessel:
Mori Tōgaku no zenbōten: Akunaki chosen no kiseki [Complete Picture of Mori Tōgaku: Trajectory of Insatiable Challenges]. Okayama: Setouchi City Museum, 2016, p. 81, pp. 74-75.
Tōgaku bizen no sōzō [Creation of Tōgaku’s Bizen ware]. Okayama: Tenmaya, 1990, pp. 26-28, 31, 47.
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 Kokuji vessel:Mori Tōgaku no zenbōten: Akunaki chosen no kiseki [Complete Picture of Mori Tōgaku: Trajectory of Insatiable Challenges]. Okayama: Setouchi City Museum, 2016, p. 81, pp. 74-75.
Tōgaku bizen no sōzō [Creation of Tōgaku’s Bizen ware]. Okayama: Tenmaya, 1990, pp. 26-28, 31, 47.
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.