A thorned vase by the young Toi Masatomo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Nezumi Toge Kaki. It is 28 cm (11 inches) tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Toi Masatomo was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1992, and graduated the Design course at the Tajimi Ceramics Research Facility in 2019. Since he has been developing his series of “Thorny” vessels and objects. At the same time he has been studying the way of tea and other traditional arts such as flower arrangement, and his use of negative space is masterful. His works have been featured in a number of group and juried exhibitions.
