A striking set of six gleaming black porcelain cups by Matsumura Jun enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled cup (-tss). Jun’s sculptural precision quietly transforms the familiar drinking vessel into a study in controlled geometry. Rising from sharply faceted bases, the cups taper upward into smooth cylindrical rims, their crisp vertical ridges reflecting the black porcelain surface. While modest in scale, the forms already reveal the structural sensibility that defines Matsumura’s work—objects that appear both organically grown and meticulously engineered. The sculpted facets gather at the base like the segments of a shell, lending the vessels a subtle dynamism while maintaining perfect balance in the hand. Each cup measures approximately 4.0 cm in diameter and 7.3 cm in height, and in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Matsumura Jun was born in Chiba Prefecture on the outskirts of Tokyo in 1986. He graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2010, and graduated the Tajimi Municipal Ceramics Research Facility in 2015, then went on to the Utatsuyama Research Facility in Kanazawa, leaving there in 2018. His transcendent, innovative forms have set the heart of the ceramic world racing and he has been awarded at the exhibition Tradition and Innovation-Japanese Ceramics Now as well as the 3rd Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa and have been presented at TEFAF in Maastricht, Art Fair Tokyo in 2018, Art Collect in London and Art Kyoto in 2019.
