MORI TŌGAKU
Unglazed earthenware vessel with diamond-shaped body, scalloped mouth, and marbleized red and purple designs made with iron oxide red pigments, 1984
Unglazed marbleized earthenware with anhydrous and hydrated iron oxide red pigments
Fired in Sabukaze Great Kiln
Fired in Sabukaze Great Kiln
8 1/8 x 6 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.
Further images
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.