24996 KOYAMA Fujio (Sake offering)

Height 3.2cm Diameter 7.7cm

Fujio Koyama is a great contributor to the development of modern ceramics, having made a great contribution to the study of ancient ceramics at the Tokyo Imperial Museum/Committee for the Protection of Cultural Properties, and traveling around Japan to make pottery at kilns in Mino, Kyoto, Bizen, Karatsu, and other places. This work is a unique piece that is recognizable as the artist's work even without the signature, with its shape, colored painting, and glaze tones, and it can be said to be overflowing with the sensibility cultivated through the study of ancient ceramics.