A NABESHIMA-TYPE CELADON RIBBED VASE LATE EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY

the tall slightly tapering cylindrical body towering from a countersunk base, the sides bordered in their entirety with horizontal ribs, the shoulder similarly decorated with a raised rib, covered overall save for the unglazed footring with a translucent nabeshima-type celadon glaze draining and transmuting to a lighter paler tone near the foot, the footring burnt brownish-orange in the firing, wood stand; together with a photograph

ERIC ZETTERQUIST b. 1962
Nabeshima Type Celadon Vase, Late Edo Period, 19th c., Japan
archival inkjet print, framed
executed in 2015
edition of 1/7



The photograph work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued and signed by the artist

For over a thousand years in China, collectors created works of art based on objects in their collections, both to extol the aesthetic virtues of the object and to exhibit the accomplishments of the connoisseur.  Following this practice, Eric Zetterquist creates his Objects Portraits photograph series of Asian ceramics dating from 2500 BC – 1400 AD. These large-scale compositions are highly abstract details of ancient ceramics that exhibit the nuances and dynamics of the form of each subject. The present image is accompanied by its original inspiration, a cylindrical vase from the late Edo period, and is printed on matte, textured paper; the result is unlike the hard-edge minimalism of the 1970s, and rather, the portrait is composed of soft, painterly lines that are evocative of the ink washes of Asian calligraphy. As a specialist of Asian ceramics, Eric Zetterquist is a New York-based antiques dealer, collector and contemporary photographer. For ten years he worked with the renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (see lots 2825 and 2904). Photographs from his Objects Portraits series are in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.