A very large shallow tochi wood and urushi bowl by Ninjo Yoshikatsu. 1990s - image-1 A very large shallow tochi wood and urushi bowl by Ninjo Yoshikatsu. 1990s - image-2

Lot 282 D α

A very large shallow tochi wood and urushi bowl by Ninjo Yoshikatsu. 1990s

Auction 1203 - overview Cologne
11.06.2022, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 500 € - 700 €
Result: 567 € (incl. premium)
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A very large shallow tochi wood and urushi bowl by Ninjo Yoshikatsu. 1990s

With a curved wall and a flat rim and a wide foot ring. Cut from the trunk in yokogiri itame, turned and lacquered.
Height 8.6 cm; diameter 46.2 cm

Ninjo Yoshikatsu was born in Korea in 1944 and returned to Japan with his family two years later. They settled in Ibara, Okayama prefecture, where Ninjo still lives. For his large plates, bowls and tiered boxes he mostly uses the wood of the Japanese horse-chestnut and covers it thinly with urushi so that the beautiful wood grain remains visible.

Provenance

Private collection, Hamburg, acquired from Elmar Weinmayr on 27.1.2015

Literature

For the work of Ninjo Yoshikatsu see Elmar Weinmayr, Nurimono. Japanische Lackmeister der Gegenwart, München 1996, p. 163-168