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This listing is for a large Irosuminagashi Tanba-ware plate made around 30 years ago by noted potter, Ichino Hiroyuki.  It is wheel-thrown and features sumi ink swirled in slip over a high-fired stoneware base.  This is a highly decorative as well as functional piece, and quite unusual for Tanba-ware.  It comes with its original signed wooden storage box, please read below in regards to the condition of the box. 

Ichino Hiroyuki (1924-2016) was a Tanba Tachikui-ware potter and one of the leading Tanba potters of the post-war era.  During the late Edo period to mid-Meiji period, Tanba became a centre for mass-produced wares such as tokkuri sake bottles.  Ichino and several other local potters sought to revive traditional techniques that were lost some 100 years before.  Mingei founders Yanagi Soetsu and Hamada Shoji visited the Tachikui area and praised kilns such as Ichino’s.  In 1958 Ichino received the Grand Prix Award at the World Exposition in Brussels.  His work was purchased and is on permanent display at the Hyogo Museum of Ceramic Art.  **Fellow sellers, this information was researched by Kominka Zakka and cannot be used in your own listings.

Tanba-ware has been produced in the village of Tachikui in Hyogo prefecture for over 800 years. Pine wood is used in the firing process which gives pottery a distinctive ash glaze, although potters often use applied glazes as well for functional items such as jars, sake bottles, and chawan. The clay they use is high in iron content, and it’s made by blending two types together. Tanba Tachikui kilns are of an old style of Korean climbing kiln - half above and half below ground. The potter’s kicking wheel was also imported from Korea, and Tanba potters are well known for their unique technique of kicking the wheel in an anticlockwise direction.

Sizes

Box:  H.6.7cm (2.6”) x 28.3cm (11.1”) x 28.3cm (11.1”)

Plate:  H.3.5cm (1.3”) x Dia.25.8cm (10.1”)

Condition

It’s in very good condition with no chips or cracks, however the box has a crack in the bottom and is slightly discoloured.  The lid of the box is spotty and has had a repair, but the rail part was not lined up properly and now the lid is ill fitting.  Boxes are generally put together with wood glue, so it’s possible that part could be soaked a little and the rail peeled off.  Then it could be reattached to make it fit.

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