25587 WAKAO Toshisada (Rat Shino tea [Ando box])

Height 9.8cm Diameter 12.4cm

He is one of the most popular contemporary Shino potters, a full member of the Japan Crafts Council, a holder of the Gifu Prefecture Important Intangible Cultural Property "Shino", and a member of the Mino Ceramic Art Association. He received extremely high praise during the era of Mino pottery warfare, and is a representative contemporary Mino potter in both name and reality. This is the finest work by Toshimasa Wakao, a representative Nezumi Shino work that Toshimasa Wakao established through his own research and study. There is an inscription "To" inside the foot.