INCOMING VIII

Recently I had a group of mostly chawan come my way as a fellow collector is "restructuring" his collection and focusing in on a different avenue. The group includes the recent additions to my Trocadero marketplace, namely a Kakurezaki Ryuichi Bizen tokkuri, a Kanzaki Shiho classic Shigaraki chawan and lastly a very dynamic Matsuzaki Ken Shino chawan. All three of the pots are really textbook examples by the potters in question but the Matsuzaki chawan shows a slightly different approach to his normal thick white Shino applied over a rich, red base glaze. In this particular instance, the base become a super rich, crimson red base and the white Shino has melted and moved down the pot thanks to the intense heat of the firing and a little thing known as gravity. Having  a semblance of the modern Enbu Shino of Yamada Kazu though created before its introduction on the scene, the super deep red juxtaposed against the soft, satiny smooth Shino glaze has an intoxicating appearance that makes for a non-stop conversation regarding the long and varied history of Shino and its infinite possibilities. I hope this detail shot of the quality and uniqueness of the surface comes through in this photo of the Matsuzaki Ken chawan in question.

"Details create the big picture."   Sanford Weill

You can see more of the Matsuzaki and other pots over on my corner of Trocadero; https://www.trocadero.com/stores/albedo3studio/catalog/