This piece has found its home. It is kept here as a record of what has passed through our hands.
A flower vessel in unglazed yakishime stoneware by Mihara Ken (b. 1958), whose colour comes not from glaze but from fire alone — clay bodies layered and fired many times over until the surface reads like cedar grain, stone, or weathered earth.
Mihara works in Shimane, and is among the most internationally collected Japanese ceramic artists of his generation: the Metropolitan Museum of Art holds two of his works, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, LACMA and some forty museums worldwide hold more. His pieces have reached five figures at international auction.
