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Lot 905

KAWASE SHINOBU (1950-)
A celadon "Penguin" vase
Heisei era (1989-2019), late 20th century

24 September 2020, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$2,422.50 inc. premium

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KAWASE SHINOBU (1950-)

A celadon "Penguin" vase
Heisei era (1989-2019), late 20th century

The vase with a tall hollow foot and delicately crimped and everted mouth, covered in the artist's characteristic seihakuji gray-green glaze, the lip finished in iron-brown glaze
Wood tomobako storage box inscribed Jincho (Penguin) and signed and sealed Shinobu
12 7/8in (32.7cm) high

Footnotes

Born the son and grandson of artists who worked in Chinese ceramic styles, Kawase began his training at age eighteen and was soon experimenting with ancient iron-oxide glazes. The undulating lobes and subtly modulated finishes seen on the present vase are hallmarks of his unmistakable individual style; this is one of a group of pieces he named Jincho ("Penguin") in celebration of the thin stoneware body and soft glaze that recalls the bird's soft and downy chest.

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