{"product_id":"p6140","title":"Colored Bizen Sake Cup","description":"This is a freshly kiln-fired, new polychrome Bizen sake cup (guinomi) by Anjin Abe, an artist who possesses profound insight and aesthetic sensibility regarding antique ceramics, and who creates one-of-a-kind works through his unique research and firing techniques.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe front features this year's theme, a chicken, depicted using a gold-painted background, carving, and red-and-white pigments to create a charming and unique representation.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe back displays a grasshopper, one of Anjin Abe's classic themes, rendered with emerald green, dark blue, and gold pigments, offering a different charm from the chicken on the front.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe sides and interior are adorned with rich mustard-colored \"nagare-goma\" (flowing sesame glaze), showcasing the type of firing that has long impressed fans of antique Bizen ware and providing beauty from every angle.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe achieves a high level of artistry in the task of painting on Bizen ware—a medium established as unglazed, wood-fired pottery—which demands exceptional compositional skill and aesthetic sense. However, rather than boasting of this difficult technical feat, one simply feels that the work itself and the spontaneous scenery of the clay surface are profoundly beautiful.\n\nSigned wooden box (shiho-zan, double-boxed)\u003cbr\u003e\nDiameter 7.0cm x 6.1cm x Height 6.7cm\n\nAnjin Abe was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1938.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAspiring to be an artist from a young age, he was active as a Western-style painter.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhile working as a painter, he collected ceramics as a hobby, but finding contemporary Bizen ware unsatisfying, he began pottery in 1972 to create works that he could truly be satisfied with.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe produces a variety of pieces, focusing on tea utensils and flower vases, as well as sake vessels.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe researches antique ceramics, including Old Bizen, and his forms and firing techniques, based on his theories, have received high acclaim both in Japan and abroad.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn recognition of his achievements, his works have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Palace Museum in Taiwan.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe holds energetic solo exhibitions both in Japan and internationally, in cities including Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Paris, and Taipei.","brand":"安倍安人","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46618035028065,"sku":"6140","price":200000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/9916\/8865\/files\/6140.jpg?v=1790231310","url":"https:\/\/tourakuen.myshopify.com\/en\/products\/p6140","provider":"川口陶楽苑","version":"1.0","type":"link"}