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Japanese glazed stoneware 'gu'-shaped vase by Minegishi Seikô 峯岸勢晃 (1952-2023)

About the Item

Exquisite stoneware vase of ‘gu’-like shape by the honoured artist Minegishi Seikô (1952-2023) with an undulating calyx-shaped mouth and covered by his trademark celadon glaze of grey-greenish colour. This high quality ‘kan’nyû’-type craquelé glaze looks like many stacked crystalized flakes surrounded by a faint reddish line. Creating a beautiful depth. The upper and lower rims, and the lower lying parts of the low relief lobed neck accentuated by smoky grey lines. The smooth foot decorated with two subtle rows of dots in the same shade. The bottom with an unglazed cartouche sealed by the artist. Minegishi Seikô was born in 1952 in Misato City, Saitama Prefecture. He specialised in craquelure celadon glaze, which was infamously difficult to achieve. His thickly applied glazes ranged from the classical range of celadon colours from pale green to grey to beige and were characterised by kan’nyū, or deep crackling that served to emphasise his elegant shapes. Minegishi's early work was in kohiki vessels (an iron-rich body coated in thin white slip glazes) inspired by early Korean pun'chong wares, rather than celadon glazes. After seeing a Chinese celadon bowl in the Tokyo National Museum, he started researching celadon and visiting all of Japan's, Taiwan's, and Korea's classical celadon collections. Minegishi began experimenting with his clay and a variety of celadon glaze methods after visually digesting these collections. Five years later, he figured out how to make the deep crackles that are synonymous with Guan wares. He also achieved deep reddish-purple lines that infused the crackled glaze which became one of his trademark aesthetics. Minegishi's kiln is in Nasucho, Nasu County, Tochigi Prefecture. And he displayed his art at many exhibitions, galleries and auctions, internationally. A few examples are: From 1996 onward he was selected 13 times for the “Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition” (selected 13 times), where he became a full member of the “Japan Kogei Association” in 2000. He held a Christie's Auction Spring Exhibition (New York), in 2002, and a 2nd one in 2003). In 2013 he was among the ‘Joan B. Mirviss Collectors Tour from USA’. A complete overview of many more achievements can be seen at his own website. Including original signed and sealed wooden tomobako (storage box), and leaflet in Japanese about accomplishments of the artist until 2014. Please have a close look at the last photo: it shows the artist sitting amidst his artworks. If you look at the right side you can see the same (or similar) vase as this one! A wonderful provenance to have of an object. When shipped we will add a certificate of authenticity. Price including insured shipping.

Creator:

Minegishi Seikô 峯岸勢晃 (Artist)

Dimensions:

Height: 11.58 in (29.4 cm)Diameter: 7.17 in (18.2 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Celadon,Stoneware,Glazed

Place of Origin:

Japan

Period:

Late 20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

Heisei (1989-2019)