After
a series of recent emails and a long phone call, I have another stellar group
of chawan on the way to sell for a collector. The collector is in the midst of
building a house and realized that the best pieces would have to go to help
mitigate the money flowing out. There is a reason houses are called money pits!
The current plan is that the pots should reach me by the end of next week and
then I will get them photographed and posted up on my Trocadero website;
Please
keep your eye on my website for this great group of modern chawan.
The
group includes a Hayashi Shotaro Shino chawan with underglaze accents of iron
decoration. This is the finest Hayashi chawan I have ever seen, is big and
pristine and exhibited and is accompanied with a portfolio sheet of this exact
chawan. Next up is a very modern dancing fire, Enbu-Shino chawan by Yamada
Kazu. It is extremely striking and part of his most recent works. There is also
several chawan by legendary eccentric, Tsukigata Nahiko. All in all, a great
group of chawan by extraordinary potters working in the modern Shino/Mino tradition..
Illustrated
is a Shino chawan by modern day master
Mino potter, Hayashi Shotaro. Not only is the form and glaze quality
exceptional, but the fluid and spontaneous vertical iron decoration gives this
pot an extreme sense of upward motion. I am always reluctant to say this as it
seems to be over used, but this truly is a masterpiece chawan.
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