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This listing is for a pair of Tanba-ware yunomi tea cups made around 20 years ago by noted potter, Ichino Hiroyuki.  They are wheel-thrown and feature two colours of brown glaze.  The slightly larger cup is coated in dark brown glaze and has cream coloured glaze on the interior, and the smaller cup is coated in an iron-based kaki glaze with white glaze on the interior.  Also they are made using two different types of stoneware clay.  The stamp of the potter can be found on the bottom of each cup, and they come with their original signed wooden storage box.  They also come with a Japanese language profile paper about the potter. 

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.11.7cm (4.6”) x 21cm (8.2”) x 10.9cm (4.2”)

Larger Cup:  H.8.5cm (3.3”) x Dia.8.5cm (3.3”)

Smaller Cup:  H.8.1cm (3.1”) x Dia.8.3cm (3.2”)

Condition

Both cups are in very good condition with no chips or cracks, the box however is a little spotty and the profile paper is quite spotty.

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