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2013

Vessel with Blue Glaze

Kimura Yoshiro

Japanese, born 1946

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For this piece, Kimura used a special tool to carve a rippling pattern, called renmon, into wet clay to simulate water. Cerulean blue suggesting the sky merges into the sapphire purple-blue color of the sea, and both flow into the deep cobalt pool at the center of the vessel.

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Kimura Yoshiro, Vessel with Blue Glaze, 2013 | Philadelphia Art Museum