Kondo Yutaka 近藤豊
Jar with Marbling Pattern 墨流し 壺
Stoneware
H11.6" x Dia 4.5" x Lip Diameter 1.8”
H29.5 x Dia 11.5 x Lip Diameter 4.4cm
H29.5 x Dia 11.5 x Lip Diameter 4.4cm
With signed wood box
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The son of the Living National Treasure Kondō Yūzō (1902-1985), who was designated for sometsuke ware (cobalt blue-glazed porcelain), Kondo Yutaka (1932–1983) also apprenticed under Tomimoto Kenkichi (LNT, 1886-1963). His...
The son of the Living National Treasure Kondō Yūzō (1902-1985), who was designated for sometsuke ware (cobalt blue-glazed porcelain), Kondo Yutaka (1932–1983) also apprenticed under Tomimoto Kenkichi (LNT, 1886-1963). His cobalt patterning on his ceramics are inspired by Korean, Chinese and Islamic porcelain, speaking to the historically transnational foundations of the use of cobalt pigment in the ceramic medium. This jar showcases a beautiful marbling pattern, within which one can spot an abstracted reference to the Evil Eye, an apotropaic symbol heralding from antiquity and the Mediterranean, on a white liquid slip-inlay surface.