Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo)

Kondō Yutaka Japanese

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This tall vessel by the Kyoto ceramist Kondō Yutaka is an early work from his brief but illustrious career. It was perhaps conceived as a flower vase, but as it is double-mouthed, the openings of which are barely wide enough for any flower to pass through, it shows sculptural qualities instead. The decoration has an abstract and painterly quality, reminiscent of Japanese ceramics made around the 1950s and 1960s by mingei artists such as Kawai Kanjirō and Hamada Shōji.

Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan

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Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan
Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan
Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan
Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan
Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan
Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan
Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan
Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo), Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983), Stoneware with white slip and black glaze, Japan

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