Large, round stoneware platter covered with a temmoku glaze that gives it a silvery-bronze metallic surface appearance with blotches of brown, the well black with reddish-brown streaks that resemble oil spots caused by an excess of iron oxides in the glaze.

Platter

Morikazu Kimura

1994

Titles Platter (Descriptive)
Artist Morikazu Kimura, Japanese, born 1921
Medium glazed stoneware
Dimensions 2 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. Diam. (7 x 43.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of the artist, 1995.11
Work Type platter
Classification Containers