Marbled porcelain in vivid color rises up in sheer walls from a ring of florals, a fabulous Chawan tea bowl by important contemporary female artist Murata Aya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Mankai Chawan (In Full Bloom).It is 14 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter, 10 cm (4 inches) tall and in perfect condition, directly from the artist and created this year.
Murata Aya was born in Kyoto in 1979, and graduated the famous DODA Art School in 1998, before two years at the Kyoto College of Art, from which she graduated in 2000. She continued her studies at the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramics School, graduating in 2004.Since she has been exhibited widely both domestically and abroad, including The USA, Denmark, Finland, Taiwan, Italy, Korea and Belgium among others. She was selected for the prestigious Paramita Ceramic Art Taishoten in 2022. Works by her are held in the Korean Ceramic Foundation, the International Ceramic Museum in Faenze, the National Tainan University as well as the Yingge Ceramic Museum in Taiwan among others.
