A 15 piece set of concentric dishes in celadon with Negoro red and black lacquered upper surfaces in a celadon tower by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Ireko. The container is 18 cm (over 7 inches) tall and is in perfect condition. The largest dish is 4.5 cm (just less than 2 inches) diameter, The smallest dish is 2 mm (1/16th of an inch) and all are in perfect condition, directly fromthe artist.
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 and Tokyo Museum of Modern 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.
