2013
Vessel with Blue Glaze
Kimura YoshiroJapanese, 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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