No. 5

Object Details

• Artist

  Takiguchi Kazuo 滝口和男 (Japan, born 1953)

• Description

  Hollow form with elongated smooth body swelling downward from ridged spine which rises to a peak, swooping downward in one direction to a second point in which opens a minuscule mouth; rounding downward in the opposite direction; resting on two small, pointed feet at the extreme ends of this primary form together with a third foot beneath a rounded lobe projecting from one side of the body beneath the peak. Hand formed from single thin, hand-formed slab of clay.

  Blend of Shigaraki stoneware clay and Fushimi red clay, entirely concealed by glaze.

  Thin slip (90% iron-bearing clay) fired to 1230 degrees in strong reduction, becoming dark blue-gray; the surface is densely wrinkled and bears numerous scattered shiny specks of crystallization. The tips of the feet and one small rectangular area on the underside are shiny and smooth.

• Inscriptions

  1. (Louise A. Cort, 13 October 1997) Unsigned.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese Ceramics 1930 - 2000 (July 23, 2011 - June 30, 2013)

  Honoring Friends: Recent Gifts by Members of the Freer and Sackler Galleries (June 10 to November 25, 2001)

  The Ceramic Sculpture of Kazuo Takiguchi (April 12, 1997)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase -- funds provided by John and Marinka Bennett

• Type

  Sculpture

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• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Takiguchi, Kazuo

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Heisei era (1989 - 2019), Art, Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Sculpture