It is very cold here,
minus 11 degrees f. when I got up, overcast and generally not the best
Monday to start a week. Pots usually help and act as a natural mood elevator,
so what could be better than Persian blue. Illustrated is a finely thrown
Turoku-ao guinomi by Kato Kato. The decoration shows tones of blue from the
cobalt used to make the black underglaze under the rich alkaline based Persian
blue glaze. Kato Kenji was a master at Turoku-ao and his fluid and spontaneous
brushwork is just wonderfully expressive and matches and articulates the form
like few others.
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