Katori Masahiko (1899-1988, Living National Treasure): Un vase en forme d'entonnoir en bronze à patine noire, Japon, Taisho, 20ème siècle

H 21,8 cm

This Taisho period vase comes with its original tomobako (the wooden storage box).

Katori Masahiko (1899-1988) was born in the family of the prominent bronze artist Katori Hozuma (1874-1954) in Chiba and he became one of the most successful and prominent Japanese metal workers during the 20th C. He was internationally awarded at the Paris Exposition in 1925, the year he graduated at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts (as a student of Tsuda Shinobu). Heavily involved with the Teiten/Nitten National Art Exhibition, following the destruction of the Second World War, he would spend years working to save Japanese Buddhist treasures, and making bells for temples and monuments. He was designated as a keeper of Important Intangible Cultural Property of Japan (Living National Treasure) in 1977.