D.30.5cm H.28cm
Matsui Kosei is one of the masters of modern ceramics, who is recognized as a Living National Treasure for his Neriage technique, produced in Kasama, Ibaraki. Neriage is a technique in which thin sheets of clay of different colors are alternately layered and cut into small pieces to form a striped pattern. There is an engraving of "康" on the base.
Matsui Kōsei 松井康成(1927-2003)
Designated as a Living National Treasure in 1993, Matsui Kōsei was hugely influential in the revival of neriage (marbleized, colored-clay ware that he perfected, studying numerous examples of ancient Chinese ceramics as a priest at Gessō-ji Temple in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture. Matsui far surpassed these historic predecessors by creating abstract and geometric surface patterning by applying to the surface or throwing numerous layered colored clays, often with a rough-hewn texture. His research and intense studies in this difficult technique, culminated in worldwide recognition for his tradition-steeped vessels.
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