A modern Japanese globular porcelain vase with a narrow mouth beautifully worked in crystalline glaze of midnight and cobalt blue colours over a metallic cream ground.
(Vase globulaire en porcelaine couvert d’une superbe glaçure cristalline bleu cobalt sur un fond crème iridescent.)
Signed to the base
Heisei era (1989-2019), circa 1990-2000
Height 26 cm, Diameter 24 cm
Price 1100 €
This crystalline glaze was most certainly obtain by using nickel oxide which has the interesting property that one can obtain two colours once fired : the crystals are likely blue while the surrounding glaze becomes yellow.
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