Dimensions: H 10cm x Ø 16.5 cm
Materials: Stoneware
Method: Thrown
Care: Wash by hand or wipe with a damp cloth
Description
This small rounded vessel is made using a Japanese lacquer called Urushi, followed by the application of powdered tin, to create a strikingly metallic appearance. The vessel carefully rests upon a small base, opening up into a delicately rimmed bowl.
About the Artist
Koichi Onozawa is a successful studio ceramicist from Nakagawa, Tochigi Prefecture. He originally comes from Tokyo, where he studied economics. Following graduation, Onozawa turned his hand to ceramics, continuing his education at a well-known ceramic school in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture, from which he graduated in ceramic design in 2008. Calling upon a Japanese aesthetic sensibility he finds within, which sees beauty in unpredictability, Onozawa’s vessels seek to express the ‘integration of primitive beauty in modernity’ through their forms reminiscent of the ancient Yayoi pottery of Japan - achieving a new and unique mode of expression by means of traditional Japanese materials and methods.
