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PROPERTY FROM THE ELIZABETH AND WILLARD CLARK
COLLECTION
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UEMATSU EIJI (1949-) THREE STUDIO CERAMICS
Two Shigaraki-style stoneware vases Showa (1926-1989) or Heisei (1989-) era, late 20th century
Heisei era (1989-), circa 2000 Yoshida Jiro (attributed): a stoneware slab vase of irregular, tapering
The first, a boat-shaped flower vessel the triangular body of warm leaf-shape, the textured cream-colored exterior with rough dark
orange hue with embedded quartz flecks and partially covered with vertical streaks, the interior flat black
a mottled ash glaze, irregular scratch marks to the interior, the base Tanino Akio (attributed): an elliptical stoneware vase, the exterior
with artist’s mark and six circular geta okoshi (kiln supports); the decorated with stalks of bamboo outlined in green slip and reserved
second, a large wall vase, the thin rectangular body with an overall on a dark-brown ground, the base with the artist’s mark
plain, rough orange-hued surface scattered with quartz inclusions, Nakai Kazuhito (attributed): an ash-glazed Bizen flower container
fashioned with five interior dividers and four pierced hanging with a central angular opening and rounded base, each side of the
supports, incised artist’s mark to the reverse clam-like silhouette accented with incised lines and two small raised
Each with a wood tomobako storage box, the first inscribed Fune bosses, the base with impressed artist’s seal
hanaire, the second Kabekake-hana, each signed and sealed Eiji 10 1/2, 10 3/8 and 6 1/4in (26.5, 26.5 and 16cm) high
6 5/8 x 15 3/8 x 6in (17 x 39 x 15.3cm)
13 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 2in (33.7 x 26.1 x 5.1cm) $1,500 - 2,500
$1,500 - 2,500

Provenance
Maezaki Shin’ya
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