KUJAKU-YU TWO

Being Friday I thought to try to tie up a few lose ends and since I had received a few inquiries, I decided to post up the overall view of this Kujaku-yu glazed hanaire by Miura Shurei. As you can see from this composite overall of the front and back, the form is elegant with long sweeping vertical facets that highlight the glaze and create stark planes of visual interest. The rich, iridescent glaze is a beautiful tight cloak of varying effects that is reminiscent of exotic peacock feather, hence the name that fits the vessel as if it were created for it or more likely the other way around in this case. There is a real beauty in the marriage of form and surface of this piece which has traces of varying Chinese archetypes though handled distinctly in a way only Miura-san could manage. It is abundantly clear why Madame Kikuchi thought highly of this potter and this surface and once you have seen this combination in person, its haunting conversation becomes a new addition to your pottery lexicon.

You can see the original detail oriented post for this vase here; https://albedo3studio.blogspot.com/search?q=shurei