Yamamoto Izuru (Japanese, b.1944), Lidded Jar

Stoneware, red-brown body with olive green and brown ash deposits, the undulating body and lid formed of deeply carved ridges, incised artist's mark, together with a signed wooden box H 18.5cm, W 16.5cm, D 15.6cm PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Japan REFERENCE: Yamamoto Izuru is a Bizen artist who both works within this tradition and innovates and experiments through his practice. He is distinctive for combining Bizen clays with clays from Bourgogne in France, and for developing a technique of 'Tsumiage' or piling up plates of clay in layers, as seen on this lidded jar. CONDITION: Perfect condition with no damage or restoratio ceramics

Estimate:$1,339.7

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