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Konishi Tozo

Contemporary Rippling Bizen Platter ー小西陶蔵 "備前 風文直角鉢"

Contemporary Rippling Bizen Platter ー小西陶蔵 "備前 風文直角鉢"

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A broad rippling pattern covers this raw earthen plate by Bizen veteran Konishi Tozo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Fumon Chjokkaku Bachi (Wind Pattern Rectangular Dish).  It is 48 x 30.5 x 6.5 cm (19 12 x 2-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition.

Konishi Tozo was born in 1947 in Bizen City, Okayama Prefecure. He was first selected for the 18th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition (Dento Kogei-ten) in 1971.  In 1975 he received the 3rd Chu-nichi International Ceramic Art Exhibition Award. The first of many including the Kaneshige Toyo Award in 1988. He has been exhibited in the National Ceramic Museum, France “Bizen ware, A Thousand Years of Traditional Beauty" in 1997. Work by him is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia) as well as the Brooklyn Art Museum (USA) among others.

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