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Hoshino Satoru
Beginning Form / Spiral ー Spring Snow 092009

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Ultramodern: Kyoto Ceramics
Ceramic vessel with wide ruffled mouth tapering to a narrow base, covered in lumpy textured protrusions and a mottled blue, white, and green glaze with orange accents at the base
Ceramic vessel with heavily textured, undulating surface built from stacked coils of dimpled clay, widening toward an irregular open rim. Matte white glaze blends with blue and green pooling toward the top, transitioning to orange and amber patches near the narrow base.
Ceramic vessel with a wide, flared, irregular rim tapering to a narrow base, covered in heavily textured coiled or nodular surface relief, glazed in white with pooling blue and green speckled color.
Ceramic vessel with heavily ruffled, undulating walls that taper to a narrow base, glazed in mottled blue, white, and yellow-green, with small orange spots near the foot.
Artist or Maker
Hoshino Satoru
Japan, born 1945
Title
Beginning Form / Spiral ー Spring Snow 09
Date Made
2009
Period
Heisei period (1989-2019)
Medium
Stoneware with glaze
Dimensions
17 × 15 3/4 × 15 1/2 in. (43.18 × 40.01 × 39.37 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer
Accession Number
M.2019.342.7
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Copyright
© Satoru Hoshino