Live Auction 9555Asobi: Ingenious Creativity Japanese Works of Art from Antiquity to Contemporary And Ceramics from the Collection of Bernard Leach
Fujioka Shuhei (1947 - )
Lot 95

Fujioka Shuhei (1947 - )

IGA WARE, SHOWA - HEISEI PERIOD (LATE 20TH CENTURY)

Closed15 October 2013

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GBP 750

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Fujioka Shuhei (1947 - )
Iga ware, Showa - Heisei period (late 20th century)
A stoneware chawan [tea bowl] decorated in a running green ash glaze forming 'dragonfly eye' drips to the bottom of the body, the foot with incised cross; tomobako signed Shuhei and sealed Shu
10cm. high

Specialist note

Fujioka Shuhei, born in Matsuyama city, Ehime prefecture, studied ceramics under an Iga ware potter Tanimoto Mitsuo (b. 1916) after having graduated from Ritsumeikan University. In 1975, he opened his own kiln in Agano city, Mie prefecture, and is actively producing fine Iga ware which shows bold modelling and rich keshiki [landscape] of bidoro [glass ash glaze] and hi-iro [fire colour] contrasting with the clay body.

His work is in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art.