A footed square plate with sake cup inserted of raw colored porcelain clay by Kusaba Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Neriage Yakishime Nami-mon Ita-Zara (Mixed Colored Clay Unglazed Wave Pattern Flat Plate). It is 24.7 x 13 x 3.5 cm (10 x 5 x 1-1/2 inches) and in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Kusaba Yuji was born in Arita, the heartland of Japanese porcelain, in 1955, and graduated the prestigious Nihon Daigaku in 1979. He returned to the family kiln in 1984, to apprentice under his father, diverging from ordinary porcelain production, he chose to attempt the unexplored techniques of Neriage colored clay in porcelain. His work was first exhibited in 1990 at the Nagasaki Togeiten, where he received the Governors prize. Since he has been accepted into or awarded at The Nihon Togeiten National Ceramics Exhibition, Dento Kogeiten Traditional Ceramics Exhibition Saga Kenten Prefectural Exhibition and Asahi Crafts Exhibition among others.
