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If I had only waited a day or two, I would have posted this photo of the Takahashi Wasaburo vase that recently made its way here. As you can see in this photo, the Sun decided to make an appearance and to my eye brought out the real character (and perhaps the best) of the pot and certainly the truer nature of the glaze combination. The sparkling kannyu surface shines through the iron variegated surface making for a rich and complex portrait that wraps around the entirety of the vase making for a rather exotic spectacle. When I first unboxed this pot I couldn't help but think of all of the wild and imaginative textures and colors of the creatures from the movie AVATAR and though I suspect the actual source for the film was the abundant diversity of nature of all types and form it would not surprise me if somewhere up on a shelf one of the pre-production designers had a handful of pots, among them perhaps one similar to this.

(I hope you don't mind all these detail pictures and sunlight photos but in many respects, capturing pots in varying circumstances and conditions can lead to a better understanding of what a piece actually looks like. How many people have received a pot that just doesn't look like its photo, jeez that sounds like what I keep hearing about internet dating!)