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Ten (Expansive), 1990s

Creator: Sueharu Fukami
Offered by: Thomsen Gallery

Description
Fukami Sueharu
Ten (Expansive), 1990s
Porcelain with seihakuji glaze
Size 8 x 6¼ in. (20.5 x 16 x 9 cm)
T-4743

Signed on the base with a single character Sue incised into the clay prior to glazing and firing. Comes with its original paulownia-wood tomobako storage box inscribed and signed outside Seihakuji koro “Ten” Sueharu saku (Seihakuji-glazed porcelain incense burner, “Expansive,” made by Sueharu) with two seals

Wheel-thrown and carved porcelain koro (incense-burner) with seihakuji (pale-blue) glaze, formed in two parts: the incense container of rounded rectangular section with a circular base with a slightly recessed central area, the unglazed top with a circular opening and grooves to left and right to allow incense smoke to escape; the lid, with a circular flange that fits in the opening, formed as two projecting wings to either side of a central groove like the pages of an open book

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1980-1999
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Asian
Incollect Reference #:	748859

Dimensions

W.	6.25 in;	H.	8 in;
W.	15.88 cm;	H.	20.32 cm;

Message from Seller:

Thomsen gallery, located in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, offers important Japanese paintings and works of art to collectors and museums worldwide. The gallery specializes in Japanese screens and scrolls; in early Japanese tea ceramics from the medieval through the Edo periods; in masterpieces of ikebana bamboo baskets; and in gold lacquer objects.