Ogurayama
Ogurayama - Celadon Oval - 5¾ in (15cm)
Ogurayama - Celadon Oval - 5¾ in (15cm)
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£175.00 GBP
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Formal description:
Handmade by Ogurayama, porcelain oval with slight internal rim, middle band, cut feet, celadon glaze over, seal of Ogurayama underneath.
External dimensions:
145 x 115 x 30mm (5¾ x 4½ x 1¼ in)
Internal dimensions:
130 x 100 x 21mm (5⅛ x 4 x ⅞ in)
Informal information:
When I die, chuck a celadon bonsai pot in the coffin and wish me luck. It really is the most fascinating of glazes, and will keep me happy in the ever after.
Almost all artists who glaze have a go at it, and every one is different, it's so sensitive to clay, glaze composition and firing. The colour is part colour from trace amounts of Iron and part optical phenomena from Rayleigh scattering, the same way the sky is blue. As magic as a thing can be.
Here, Ogurayama uses porcelain to provide the most transparent colouring, his glaze chemistry and firing reproduce a Celadon like the ancient kilns of Longquan - pale blue, no obvious bubbles, thick and unctuous. Suitable for many trees, I recently saw a shohin Euonymus with silver berries that looked fantastic in a Celadon pot.
Condition: Used, patina, excellent.
Ogurayama - Karahashi Homiyabi, born 1920 in Kyoto. His work is very diverse, and becoming more valued. There are a couple of great posts on Michael Ryan Bell's site Japanese Bonsai Pots blog that deserve better than me paraphrasing:
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