"Upright" (Kitsu)

2012

Not on view

The Kyoto-based ceramic artist Fukami employed an innovative, high-pressure slip-casting technique (designed to prevent warping) to form the porcelain body of this towering sculpture, onto which he then applied a classic pale-blue glaze (Japanese: seihakuji; Chinese: qingbai). The distinctive glaze recalls luminescent Song-dynasty (960–1279) celadon wares produced in the Jingdezhen kilns of China in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

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深見陶治作　「屹」
Title: "Upright" (Kitsu)
Artist: Fukami Sueharu (Japanese, born 1947)
Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
Date: 2012
Culture: Japan
Medium: Porcelain with seihakuji (pale blue) glaze
Dimensions: Overall (with base): H. 77 3/4 in. (197.5 cm); W. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm); D. 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013
Object Number: 2013.168a, b
Rights and Reproduction: © Fukami Sueharu
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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