Lot 303
TAKAHIRO KONDO (JAPANESE 1958-)
'SILVER MIST' BOX, c.2000
Auction: 30 October from 10:00 GMT
Description
signed (to base), porcelain, lid of quadripartite design, with metallic geometric design on black underglaze and blue underglaze with silver-mist (gintekisai) overglaze, in signed tomobako box
Dimensions
3.5cm high, 5.6cm wide, 5.6cm deep (1 3/8in high, 2 ¼in wide, 2 ¼in deep)
Provenance
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 2000, where acquired by the present owner;
Private Collection, U.K.
Footnote
Since 1993, Kondó Takahiro has employed his original, now patented technique known as Silver Mist (gintekisai), in which a mixture of platinum, gold, silver, and glass crystallizes into fine granular droplets on the ceramic surface. The technique lends the porcelain a delicate shimmer and ever-changing visual effects created by these surface droplets. Conceived as an expression of "creating water from fire" through the medium of clay, Silver Mist exemplifies Kondō's innovative approach to contemporary porcelain.