Kasama ceramic plate
This small platter is constructed with appealing proportions, and a beautifully restrained aesthetic, the clay transformed by the kiln's heat to produce a crackled glaze. An elegant way to serve sashimi, dessert, or cheese, it would be equally effective as part of a sculptural display of different ceramic forms and glazes.
Located on the outskirts of Tokyo, Kasama is a relative new-comer in Japanese ceramics, established a little over 250 years ago. Kasama pottery is known for being part of a 'new' wave of idiosyncratic ceramicists, unencumbered by some of the more traditional techniques and aesthetics of the older kilns.
ceramic
width : 15cm
length : 23.8cm
made in Japan
During the late 1770s the population of Kasama was growing, and the irregular income from agriculture led people to seek more from their surroundings; the answer lay in the rich seam of ceramic clay that lay beneath the people's feet! In 1772 village elder, Hanuemon Kuno, encountered a visiting ceramicist from western Japan, and legend has it that the meeting of these two minds led to the establishment of a new pottery industry that has prospered ever since.