A set of nesting tea cups in a lidded cylinder set into a domed container by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original signed and compartmentalized wooden box titled Sencha-wan. The Outside container is 26 cm (10-1/2 inches) diameter, 20.5 cm (8 inches) tall and all is in excellent condition.
Yagi Akira was born in Kyoto in 1955, son of avant garde Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979) one of the founding members of Sodeisha. Akira was voted one of the 20 most important living artists by Honoho, Japans premier printed ceramic forum. Works by the artist are held in the British Museum, Victoria Albert Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian, Tokyo Museum of Modern Art, Ackland Art Museum and the Minneapolis Institute of Art among many others. He was also the recipient of the Japan Ceramic Society (JCS) award in 1998, one in a long and prestigious list of awards. For more see “Quiet Clarity, Rin” (1996) or the aforementioned “Contemporary Clay, Japanese Ceramics for the New Century “(2005) by Joe Earle.
