Set of nineteen nesting porcelain bowls

Kyoto potter Yagi Akira is the eldest son of the famed avant-garde ceramic artist Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979) who was a founder of Sodeisha, and the grandson of Yagi Isso, another innovative potter. Yagi's technically exquisite works are both sculptural art objects and functional ceramics, and are frequently embellished by a blueish-white seihakuji (Qingbai) glaze. Yagi won the Japan Ceramic Society award in 1998 and he has had many solo gallery and department store exhibitions in Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka and New York. His work is in the collections of the Japan Foundation, the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, the British Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the St. Louis Art Museum.