JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RUTH AND HAROLD NEWMAN
770
TSUJIMURA YUI (B. 1975)
Large stoneware jar with natural ash glaze
Heisei era (1989-2019)
Beginning from a narrow base, the profile building up to a broad and flat shoulder,
the neck again expanding upward and the lip folding out; the clay body, white
from being fired in a reduction atmosphere, is covered in natural ash glaze in blue,
green, and gray tones; in several places the remains of cup-shaped kiln spacers
broken off after firing have created small deposits of thick, glass-like glaze
27in (68.6cm) high x 22in (55.9cm) diameter, at widest
$2,500 - 3,500
For a similar example by the same artist in the collection of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, see accession number 2010.563
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