{"product_id":"matsuri-girl-with-fox-mask-ceramic-sculpture-by-mieko-yuki","title":"\"Matsuri\" Girl with Fox Mask Ceramic Sculpture -Japanese Ceramic Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatsuri\u003c\/i\u003e, the Japanese festival, is a recurring subject in figurative ceramic sculpture — a moment of costume, mask, and crowd rendered still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA standing figure by Mieko Yuki of a girl in a loose kimono who has pushed a fox mask up onto her head, as if pausing between the crowd and the stalls of a festival, \u003ci\u003ematsuri\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sculpture is built in pale, unglazed stoneware. The kimono is modelled in soft folds with the sleeves gathered at the front, while the mask is worked in more detail, its ears upright and the fox's features picked out on the crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeen from the side and from behind, the figure has a slight forward lean that gives it a sense of a moment caught rather than a pose held.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComes in a signed paulownia box.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece can be viewed in person at our gallery wanova TOKYO in Roppongi, by appointment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eW00179\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mieko Yuki \/ 結城美栄子","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52499008356572,"sku":null,"price":3101.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/3623\/3436\/files\/mieko-yuki-matsuri-w00179-01.jpg?v=1789271250","url":"https:\/\/wanova.org\/products\/matsuri-girl-with-fox-mask-ceramic-sculpture-by-mieko-yuki","provider":"wanova","version":"1.0","type":"link"}