Fujisawa Hideyuki (b. 1972), A lacquered Yuteki Tenmoku bowl 藤澤秀行 （1972年生） 油滴天目茶盌

Contemporary Japanese lacquer artist Fujisawa Hideyuki’s work display a playful exploration on the possibilities of various traditional material. At first glance, the present bowl follows strictly the decorative repertoire seen on a classic Song dynasty temmoku teabowl traditionally made of ceramic. It was in fact, however, created by applying layers of lacquer over a wooden core, on which multiple glittering pieces of mother-of-pearl were inlaid.

The ceramic prototype of this could be the two Song dynasty temmoku teabowls revered as National Treasures of Japan, one from the collection of Ryūkō-in sub-temple of the Daitokuji Temple in Kyoto, and the other one from the collection of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka, both published in Nishida Hiroko and Degawa Tetsuro, Chugoku no toji/Chinese Ceramics, vol. 6, Tenmoku, Tokyo, 1999, pls 32 and 33.

By skilfully applying the black lacquer and even meticulously mimicking the glaze pooling effect as you would expect on a traditional temmoku bowl, Fujisawa captured the fluidity of the glaze on its ceramic counterparts. This aesthetic experience was further enhanced by the lush inlay of mother-of-pearl fragments on the lacquer surface, re-creating the prismatic iridescence and spectral colouration of refracted light as you would have seen on an oil-spot bowl.

日本當代漆器藝術家藤澤秀行的作品有趣地對不同傳統材料的可能性進行了探索。本件拍品呈現了宋代傳統陶瓷天目茶盌上的裝飾元素，卻是一件採用了螺鈿工藝的木胎漆器。

藝術家創作時靈感可能來源於兩件名列日本國寶的宋代天目茶盌，一件藏於京都大德寺龍光院，另一件藏於大阪市立東洋陶瓷美術館，分別載於西田宏子及出川哲朗，《中国の陶磁》，卷6：天目，東京，1999年，編號32及33。

藤澤秀行憑其高超的技巧，使用黑漆呈現了傳統陶瓷天目茶盌上釉的流動性，並巧妙地使用了螺鈿工藝重現了光怪陸離的油滴紋路，在視覺上豐富了這場穿越古今的審美體驗。