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A mixed exhibition of ceramics, paintings, prints and sculpture but featuring a small showcase of Bizen Pottery 13^th January to 3^rd February 2005
A vase by Koyama Isso II (b.1932) together with a signed wooden box. Height: 27.4cm (10.8”)				A dish with incised cereal pattern by Akihiko Kido, together with a signed wooden box. Kido started his pottery training in 1976 at the Ooban kiln and has had his own kiln since 1989. He has won prizes in several Japanese Ceramic Art Exhibitions. Diameter: 15cm (5.9”)
A traditional shrimp handled teapot by Yichiro Yamakuchi. Height: 12.4cm (4.9”) SOLD			A cylindrical vase with signed wooden box by Ryuji Namba. Height: 24.1cm (9.5”) Diameter: 10.8cm (4.25”)
A yunomi by Fumiharu Kino, who started potting in 1975. He is a prize winner in many exhibitions in Okayama Prefecture and has had his own kiln since 1995. Height: 8cm (3.2”)			A Guinomi by Yukinori Matsukasa, who was an assistant to Fujiwara Ken and studied with 2 living national treasures, Fujiwara Kei and Kaneshige Touyou. He opened his own kiln in 1982. Height: 5.8cm (2.3”) SOLD
Although there will a mixture of items both new and old for sale at the Harlequin Gallery during January, the start of the New Year will also see a selection of items available that were produced in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Bizen is one of six famous ancient pottery styles in Japan and unglazed stoneware has been made there since the 12^th century. Its glory days were in the Momoyama period (1573 to 1603) and the ancient processes were revived in the 1930s by Kaneshige Toyo and continue to this day. Today there are currently more than 200 potters working in the area, using the special local clay and firing at high temperatures, usually with red pine wood (akamatsu). Many of the items produced are of a similar shape to the vases, storage vessels, sake bottles and tea bowls made during the Momoyama period but these are augmented by modern items such as beer mugs and teacups for everyday use. Available in the Harlequin Gallery showcase, as well as the items shown here will be other pottery by Matsukasa, Namba and Kido, together with pots made by the American potter, Eben Stewart, during his last firing in Bizen in 2000. Other non-Bizen items on display will include pottery by Poh Chap Yeap, Takeshi Yasuda, Phil Rogers, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie and Michael Cardew.
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