D.6.5cm H.5.5cm
It is painted with blue and pink marbled patterns on a raw-colored ground. There is a "康" mark on the side of the base. Matsui Kosei became a living national treasure for his neriage technique. He has a somewhat unusual background, having worked as a potter while performing his duties as the chief priest of Gessho-ji Temple in Kasama City. Neriage is a technique of combining different colored clay to create patterns.
Kosei Matsui 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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