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2010Master Keikou Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan)
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'PLANET'
A set of eight nesting lacquered bowls, along with a panel and sphere
2010
Master Keikou Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan)
The eight bowls representing the eight planets, each covered with a different color of lacquer: grey with craters (Mercury), red (Mars), green (Venus), blue (Earth), red with orange (Uranus), dark red (Saturn), dark blue (Neptune), natural and black (Jupiter). Each
rotating around the sun (the circle on square black panel), all fit into one another and in a sphere. Third generation of urushi lacquer master; along with a box for the bowls and another one for the sun, dated Made on December 2010, signed and sealed Keikou and entitled wakusei (planet) and taiyou (sun), all in Japanese inside and outside the wooden box.
Sun: 45 x 45 cm (17¾ in.)
Bowls (8): from 8.2 cm to 21.6 cm diam (3¼ to 8½ in.)
Sphere: 23.5 cm diam. (9¼ in.)
Plywood, urushi lacquer, washi paper, silver, zelkova, and pigment
A set of eight nesting lacquered bowls, along with a panel and sphere
2010
Master Keikou Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan)
The eight bowls representing the eight planets, each covered with a different color of lacquer: grey with craters (Mercury), red (Mars), green (Venus), blue (Earth), red with orange (Uranus), dark red (Saturn), dark blue (Neptune), natural and black (Jupiter). Each
rotating around the sun (the circle on square black panel), all fit into one another and in a sphere. Third generation of urushi lacquer master; along with a box for the bowls and another one for the sun, dated Made on December 2010, signed and sealed Keikou and entitled wakusei (planet) and taiyou (sun), all in Japanese inside and outside the wooden box.
Sun: 45 x 45 cm (17¾ in.)
Bowls (8): from 8.2 cm to 21.6 cm diam (3¼ to 8½ in.)
Sphere: 23.5 cm diam. (9¼ in.)
Plywood, urushi lacquer, washi paper, silver, zelkova, and pigment
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