Studio pottery vessel - sculpture by American Northwest artist, Akio Takamori (1950 - ). Hand-thrown, painted and glazed stoneware. Signed on the back “akio”. Dated on the bottom “8/11/95”. Decorated in black and colors with a face on the front and a figure with upraised hands on the reverse. In the modernist style made popular by Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.

SIZE: Height - 4.5” (11.5 cm)

PROVENANCE: Jeffrey Spahn Gallery.

NOTES / REFERENCES: Akio Takamori, currently residing in Seattle, was born in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan in 1950. Upon his graduation from the University of Tokyo, he apprenticed to a master folk potter at Koishiwara, Kyushu. In 1974 Takamori made the move to the United States, receiving his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and later attending Alfred University in New York for his M.F.A. Takamori’s ceramics are in many important private and public collections, including: Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland; Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana; Carnegie Institute Art Museum, Pittsburgh; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Arts and Design, New York; The Museum of Ceramic Arts, Alfred, New York; Everson Museum, Sryacuse, N.Y.; Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan; Rhode Island School of Design Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England.

Excellent original condition with no damage or restoration. No chips. No hairlines.