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GOSU small plate set

Ceramics

Craft Company: Soekyu Seitosho

ORIGIN: Saga Prefecture
MATERIAL: Gosu

Gosu with the seasons

This is a small plate characterized by “Dami”, a painting technique using a large brush. The five hues of “Gosu (cobalt pigment)” varies slightly depending on the season when the piece is made. Fresh gosu in summer and a dignified gosu in winter. Works born with the seasons, tasteful.

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Soekyu Seitosho

Ceramics

Yoshida, Saga Pref.

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Gosu
- Material
A cobalt blue glaze containing cobalt oxide pigments. Gosu itself is a blackish mineral, but after reduction firing, the color changes to blue. Currently, it is difficult to obtain natural gosu. Therefore, a compound that mixes cobalt and iron are being used prevalently.