Richard Gien
Art, Design & Fashion Consultants
A Bizen Style Jar

Diameter: 8 inches (20.3 cm)
Jeff Shapiro (American born)

Provenance:

Sara Japanese Pottery

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A typical Japanese concept of wabi taste - rustic beauty. An unglazed wood fired Bizen style jar. This jar with cover is suggested as a function object as water-container (mizusashi) in Japanese tea-ceremony. Jeff claimed that the inspiration came from the Chinese Han terra-cotta warrior.