Description
This exceptional oval bonsai pot by Tosui showcases the kiln’s mastery of painted ceramics. The piece features a pristine white glaze that serves as a canvas for a traditional hand-painted landscape, executed in soft indigo and verdant hues. The artwork captures the essence of rural Japan with mountains, water, and foliage rendered in Tosui’s signature expressive style, which balances detail with a charming, impressionistic touch. The rim is gently rounded, leading down to a harmonious oval body supported by subtle feet, creating a sense of elegance and lightness.
The clean white aesthetic and pictorial design make this pot a perfect stage for deciduous species with seasonal interest. A Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) with refined branch structure, or a flowering Satsuki Azalea would contrast beautifully against the white glaze. It is also an excellent choice for a graceful, delicate Zelkova.
- Outer dimensions: 28,5 x 20,5 x 6,5 cm
- Inner dimensions: 26 x 17,5 x 5,5 cm
- Origin: Japan
- Potter/Kiln: Tosui
- Condition: Excellent
About the kiln:
The pot’s creator, Tōsui (Tsugao Mizuno), is the current generation of Tōsui, a lineage that has produced many masterpieces from the pre-war to the post-war period. The earlier Tōsui pots were mostly glazed, with paintings by Asai Chazan (Shinano Chazan). Tsugao Mizuno studied ceramic painting under Chazan and trained in pot-making under his father, Ryokujian Tōsui. As an artist who inherited both Tōsui’s pot-making techniques and Chazan’s painting style, he introduced Tōsui painted pots to the world. His distinctive paintings, rich in character, feature landscapes, figures, and birds and flowers based on the Southern School of Chinese painting, as well as series like The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Four Seasons Landscapes, as well as various pots for bonsai, colored pots, and medium-sized pots, showcasing his versatile talent and prolific output. Due to the limited production of Tōsui painted pots, their popularity has been increasing in recent years.
