A globular Kutani vase, by Tokuda Masahiko (1933-2009). Komatsu City, Ishikawa prefecture. Around 1990 - image-1

Lot 95 Dα

A globular Kutani vase, by Tokuda Masahiko (1933-2009). Komatsu City, Ishikawa prefecture. Around 1990

Auction 1157 - overview Cologne
27.06.2020, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €
Result: 1.000 € (incl. premium)
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A globular Kutani vase, by Tokuda Masahiko (1933-2009). Komatsu City, Ishikawa prefecture. Around 1990

The short slender neck glaze blue, the shoulder turquoise merging with the deep dark aubergine-coloured glaze of the body. At the base signed in iron-brown Kutani Masahiko. Original wooden box, the inscription on the lid reading Hekimeiyû (blue-green glaze) tsubo, signed and sealed Kutani Masahiko.
Height 25 cm

Tokuda Masahiko was born 1933 as first son of Tokuda Yasokichi II in Komatsu City, Ishikawa prefecture. After graduation from Kanazawa art school he took up apprenticeship under his father and took the potter's name Yasokichi III in 1988. Tokuda was designated Living National Treasure in 1997 for his supremacy in the use of saiyû Kutani glazes. He passed away in 2009.

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Collection Vollmer-Bergmann, Berlin