Wednesday, December 20, 2017

TORI-TSUBO

I just received this wonderful porcelain tsubo from a collector to put up on my trocadero marketplace, though quite a nice pot it doesn't quite go with all of his rather rustic, wood fired pieces. The exquisitely painted sparrow and foliage across the surface with vivid watercolor like effects calling to mind a scene right out of early autumn and wraps partially around the tsubo leaving large, imagined areas of negative space. The detail of the painting is rather intricate and obviously owes its inspiration to many of the Meiji era  and 20th century Nihonga painters of which Watanabe Seitei and Konno Bairei immediately springs to mind. I took a group of photos and built this short video slideshow to help fill out the pot and hopefully give a sense of the quality of painting and the essence of 20th century Japanese porcelain painting.
You can see more of this tsubo over at my Trocadero marketplace;