| | Stockno.: | K21-056 | Artist: | Kamei Miraku XIV (1931-2014) | Description: | Mizusashi (water jar used in the tea ceremony), takatori style.
Hitoe-guchi shape: (single-layer lip/mouth) referring to vessels with a shape of a straight lip – not curving inward or outward. With elegant use of the technique of "running" glaze. Movement of the potter’s wheel can be seen in the horizontal lines in the interior of the mizusashi. With cloth with artist’s seal.
Signed on the bottom: Miraku 味楽 and 高 i.e. takatori style (高取焼).
With original box, signed ‘made by XIVth generation Miraku’ with artist’s seal. Inscription reads: Takatori, Hito-e guchi mizusashi.
*Trained with his grandfather Miraku from the age of sixteen, who taught taught him the basic principles of the Takatori ceramics. He became the fourteenth generation family head at twenty-eight in 1960 (Kameika Miraku kiln, Takatori school). In 1977, named Holder of an Intangible Cultural Asset of Fukuoka City, in 1999 awarded the title of Contemporary Famous Craftsman by the Japanese government. | Signed: | on the bottom (Miraku) and on the box (made by XIVth generation Miraku) | Size: | 17.6 cm (height), 16.2 cm (width) | Condition: | | Price: | Euro 850 SOLD | Reference: | | | | |
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