Rare Form Based Ceramic Basin ー和田 守卑良 “雲花文器”

A very unusual architectural work in black by Wada Morihiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Unka-mon Utsuwa. It is 57 x 20.5 x 14.5 cm (23 x 8 x 6 inches) and in excellent condition. Due to size the cost of shipping will be accrued separately. Wada Morihiro (1947-2007) was born in Hyogo prefecture and apprenticed under Kyoto’s Tomimoto Kenkichi before moving to his current location in 1976. He has been displayed at the Nihon Togei Ten (National Ceramics Exhibition), Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Crafts Exhibition) Gold medal at the Florence International Ceramics Exhibition in 1980 as well as being dispayed at the Victoria Albert and Smithsonian as one representative of modern Japanese ceramics in 1983. He subsequently received the Japanese Ceramic Society Award in 1985, a very rare honor.