Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo)
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.
Artwork Details
- 近藤豊作 墨流し壷
- Title: Vessel with dripping black ink patterns (Sumi nagashi tsubo)
- Artist: Kondō Yutaka (Japanese, 1932–1983)
- Period: Shōwa period (1926–89)
- Date: 1964
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Stoneware with white slip and black glaze
- Dimensions: Overall: 19 3/8 × 5 3/8 × 5 1/8 in. (49.2 × 13.7 × 13 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Halsey and Alice North, 2014
- Object Number: 2014.217
- Rights and Reproduction: © Kondō Yutaka
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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