A recent find from an old Japanese tea pottery collection

This is an extraordinary Japanese shigaraki kiln hand thrown vase thrown in a “wabi sabi” outcome that high lights its handsome distorted opening and with its rich blue, green, and white glazing.

Wabi sabi is Japanese craft as a purposely tilted creation. Luscious rich blue, green, and cream glazes cover its extremities.

Used perhaps as a vase or water vessel, this superb example possesses some say -wabi-sabi – the Japanese aesthetic of perfection of the imperfection – that unmistakable sublime look and feel collectors seek and covet.

It has no repairs or damages and retains bottom pads.

We were very lucky to have found this one from our recent acquisitions in Japan.

Dimensions: 17.5 inches tall

Provenance: old Kyoto/Shiga tea art collection

Only one. Irreplaceable.

Wabi-sabi is a concept in traditional Japanese aesthetics constituting a world view centred on the acceptance of transience and imperfection. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete”. It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence , specifically impermanence , suffering and emptiness or absence of self-nature.

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