Plate / Porcelain / Kyoto / Kondo Yuzo
Sometsuke Plate by Living National Treasure Kondo Yuzo
With the feel of an ink landscape painting, this porcelain sometsuke--underglaze cobalt blue--plate was by by the first Japanese ceramic artist to be named a Living National Treasure for sometsuke in 1977, Kondo Yuzo(1902-1985). The Kondo Yuzo Museum is located in Kyoto and can be viewed online here: kondo-kyoto.com/yuzo/index.html This plate is quite thick and shows the various shades of blue that Kondo was famed for, as well, of course, for his brushwork. In perfect condition with a signed box, 3.2cm.tallx21x20.8cm., signed under the plate.
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