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Unfolding Bowl
Takeshi Yasuda, 2002
Yasuda uses porcelain rather than earthenware in his creamware range. He exploits porcelain's slow drying time by allowing it, in effect, to collapse on the wheel and then hangs the vessel upside down and stretched back and allows it to set.
More information
Title of artwork, date
Unfolding Bowl, 2002
Date supported
2003
Medium and material
Porcelain
Dimensions
10 x 36 cm
Grant
500
Total cost
1035
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