26487 Kenji Funaki Large bowl with pale yellow glaze and lion design

Height 12.6cm　　
Diameter 18.0cm

This is a large pale yellow-glazed shishi-patterned bowl by Kenji Funaki, one of Shimane Prefecture's leading ceramic artists. After apprenticing at the studio of Bernard Leach, who moved to England and produced many outstanding ceramic artists, he created this expressive and powerful work inspired by British slipware.