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$3,500
Japanese Chawan (tea bowl) by Sakata Deika (Sakata Ippei). Sakata was from a traditional pottery family that belonged to the four main lineages of the Fugawa kiln in Hagi (Yamaguchi Prefecture). In 1950 he became the thirteenth head of the Fugawa kiln and assumed the artist name Deika XIII. Sakata's greatest achievement is the revival of the Ido tea bowl. This happened during the post-war