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MORINO TAIMEI (1934-) MORINO TAIMEI (1934-)
Glazed stoneware vase Rust red iron glazed jar
Showa era (1926-1989), Circa 1980 (Heisei era (1989-2019)
Slab-built stoneware vase, perforated in linear arrangements, painted Slab- built stoneware, painted in iron-red and black glaze
on the surface and incised with concentric circles around each 13 1/4 x 12 1/4 x 6 3/4in (33.6 x 31.2 x 17.2cm)
perforation
13 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 5in (34.2 x 24.8 x 12.7cm) $3,000 - 5,000

$4,000 - 6,000 Provenance
Purchased from Japonesque, Inc., San Francisco
Provenance:
Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd., New York For information regarding this ceramic artist, please refer to the
preceding lot.
Morino Taimei (also called Hiroaki) is one of the few surviving
members of the post-war Kyoto ceramic avant-garde. After training in
Kyoto with two traditionalist porcelain decorators, Tomimoto Kenkichi
and Fujimoto Yoshimichi, in the 1960s he worked as a ceramic
instructor at the University of Chicago, broadening his exposure to
the latest international trends. Much of his work takes as its starting
point the tradition of ceramic sculpture established in the 1950s by
Yagi Kazuo and his Kyoto contemporaries. He employs slab- and
hand-building techniques to construct vases and screens that
combine an assured and distinctive contemporary abstract language
with seasonal references and other motifs recalling traditional Kyoto
crafts. Morino’s works are typically decorated with several layers of
glaze, one of them with a high glass content that he sometimes uses
to create a distinctive surface texture.

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