Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Chinese Nanking mug, c.1790 here
An important Blue and White ‘Dragon’ bottle vase. Yuan Dynasty link
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE CHINA PORCELAIN SEAL here
EARLY MING  (1368) here
antique tang pottery here
Jun Takegoshi “…However, the special genius of Takegoshi is his motifs—-sparrows, ibis, king fishers, even dragons, each cunningly painted with individual personalities. Takegoshi doesn’t just paint from nature, he imbues his creatures, the beguiling birds especially, with facial expressions —-anger, sadness, happiness, and could that be jealousy?” link                                              link           Long flat platter with four kingfishers on a branch link Born in 1948 in Terai. Graduated from the Kanazawa College of Art. Chief at the pottery and porcelain design department of Vocational School. After traveling abroad, started his career as a professional potter in 1973. Learned porcelain techniques from his father, Taizan III and Kitade Fujio. Accepted to the Nitten Exhibition for the first time in 1974. Since then, he has worked on Iroe Polychrome porcelain mainly by TATARA forming (assembling sheets of clay which are made by tapping clay lumps). A Member of the Kutani Porcelain Technique Preservation Society of the Ishikawa Prefectural Intangible Cultural Asset Holders Association.(http://www.gbouvier.com/Painter_history/h_takegoshi_jun.htm)
Jun Takegoshi link
Jun Takegoshi link
Jun Takegoshi link
Rörstrand porcelain factory

Rörstrand was founded in 1726 and is Sweden’s oldest porcelain manufacturer and the second oldest porcelain manufacturer in Europe.

“The appearance of the Rörstrand porcelain factory from Stockholm at the 1900 world exhibition in Paris was brilliant: the world had never seen such expert handling of porcelain mass – some in the form of waferthin petals – and an underglaze colour palette with such subtle nuances. The critics were full of praise and the economic success was soon to follow…”

More http://www.arnoldsche.com/en/Collectibles/THE-WHITE-GOLD-OF-THE-NORTH.html

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