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KONDO TAKAHIRO (1958-)
"Blue Mist" vase
Heisei era (1989-2019), 2002

24 September 2020, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$6,950 inc. premium

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KONDO TAKAHIRO (1958-)

"Blue Mist" vase
Heisei era (1989-2019), 2002

The porcelain hexagonal vase with rectangular cover, two of the sides with vertical stripes in two shades of blue, the other four sides and the top with the artist's characteristic relief zigzag patterning, the blue glaze sprinkled with silver, gold, and platinum producing droplets on the surface of the finished vessel, signed on the base with characters drawn in the soft clay, in Japanese and Roman script Takahiro Kondo and signed under the lid in roman script Kondo
Wood tomobako storage box inscribed Ginga seisui ("Blue Mist"), signed Takahiro, and sealed
10 3/8in (26.4cm) high

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The grandson of Living National Treasure porcelain artist Kondo Yuzo (1902-1985), Kondo Takahiro was a champion table-tennis player before he started his ceramics studies and devoted his energies to a career that has made him an internationally feted superstar of clay. This vase dates from a period when he was exploring a technique called ginteki (silver drops), using precious metals to produce a finish like dew on grass, representing what he called "water born out of fire."

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