Tōkaiseki Cense Online
Description
Oribe
Tōkaiseki is a technique of Matsuzaki’s own invention, these sculptural works are not thrown but hewn, carved and torn from hollowed blocks of clay on a potter’s wheel using a variety of tools – from knives and wooden scrapers to wire, fingers, thumbs and even fistfuls of clay itself. Developed over many years, these forms now represent a distillation of Matsuzaki’s enigmatic, tour-de-force approach to his medium.
Dating back to the 16th century, Oribe ware pottery is rarely found outside of Japanese ceramics. The brilliant green of Oribe surfaces is due to a glaze rich in copper. During the firing, the copper reacts in the heat of the kiln with silica in the clay, producing a transparent glaze surface with a distinctive emerald colour.
Often the unglazed areas of an Oribe ware pot are decorated with iron brush strokes which, when fired, become a bold orange or rust-red colour, contrasting beautifully with the cool green glaze.
Accompanied by a signed, made to measure box.
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