Faceted Covered Vessels with Pale Blue Glaze
Yagi Akira is the son of Yagi Kazuo (1918–1979), who in 1948 in Kyoto cofounded the avant-garde ceramics group Sōdeisha. The Kyoto-based Yagi Akira is noted for his delicate, fine-edged, wheel-thrown, and carved porcelain with bluish-white seihakuji and lacquerlike black glazes. In this set of three faceted, lidded, corkscrew-shaped bottles, the spaces between each and the interaction among them are as important as the vessels themselves.
Artwork Details
- 八木明作 青白磁面取蓋物
- Title: Faceted Covered Vessels with Pale Blue Glaze
- Artist: Yagi Akira (Japanese, born 1955)
- Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
- Date: 2004
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Porcelain with pale blue glaze (seihakuji)
- Dimensions: H. 7 in. (17.8 cm); Diam. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
H. 6 in. (15.2 cm); Diam. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
H. 5 in. (12.7 cm); Diam. 4 in. (10.2 cm) - Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Halsey and Alice North, in memory of Yagi Sakiyo, 2015
- Object Number: 2015.442.9a–f
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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