Vase with crackled ice glaze

Object Details

• Artist

  Kiyomizu Rokubei VI (1901-1980)

• Description

  Slender four-sided form with rounded corners, rising from circular trimmed, concave foot; wheel-thrown cylindrical vessel reformed after throwing.

  Clay: cream-colored, fine-grained stoneware clay

  Glaze: double coating of translucent, crackled, bubbly glaze, near colorless but with cool bluish tone overall, warmer yellow tone in some areas near rim and base, depending on thickness and texture of glaze.

  Decoration: none.

  Mark: small relief seal, "Kiyo," inside hexagonal border, impressed in center of base.

• Marks

  Mark: small relief seal, "Kiyo," inside hexagonal border, impressed in center of base.

• Inscriptions

  The vase is contained in a paulownia wood box inscribed by the artist. The inscription on the front of the box lid reads: (upper right) hyoretsu yu [crackled ice glaze]; (center) kabin [vase]; (lower left) Rokubei [hexagonal black seal: Sei or kiyo]. The character used for "glaze" is an uncommon Chinese character favored by Rokubei and may be said to be typical of the Chinese-flavored special names chosen by Nitten artists continuing in the line of Itaya Hazan (Nihon no toji gendai hen, pp. 251-52).

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Gojozaka, Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Sanae and Douglas Reeves

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1960s, 1950s

• Name

  Kiyomizu VI, Rokubei

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Gojozaka, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)