A powerful work in a compact form by Doi Masafumi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yohen Kaki. Looking at this vessel, one wonders how Doi could get so much action on the surface. It must have become completely buried in the embers, virile blue runs in rivulets over the scarred surface which seems worn with age. A brilliant work from any angle. It is 14.4 cm (roughly 6 inches) diameter, 18 cm (7 inches) tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist last year.
Doi Masafumi was born in Nara prefecture in 1972, and graduated the Aichi prefectural ceramic research facility in 2000. For the next seven years he would work at a kiln in Kyoto, absorbing the many styles and techniques associated with Kyo-yaki before establishing his won kiln back in Nara. He held is first solo exhibition in Kyoto in 2009, and in 2011 was awarded at the Nihon Togeiten National Ceramics Exhibition, where he has been featured many times.
