SUPERB 70+ Japanese glazed earthenware ceramic TIGER statue created by a celebrated Japanese artist Kanzan Shinkai & bears his personal SEAL to base & signature on case

LENGTH 205 mm long by 198 mm tall

Contained in its original artist-signed Paulownia wood box

UNDAMAGED unrestored ANTIQUE of the future

Shinkai Kanzan was born the grandson of Seifu Yohei III in 1912 and was raised from a baby in the confines of the Gojo-zaka ceramic district of Kyoto, inducted daily into the realm of pottery by his father and grandfather

He graduated the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts, and moved on to study painting (after his fathers urging) before returning to ceramics under Kiyomizu Rokubei V and Vi

He was first accepted into the Teiten (later Nitten) National Exhibition in 1930, & was displayed there consistently thereafter as well as others, being prized at the 1939 San Francisco Exposition

Just as he was beginning to take off as an artist, he was drafted & sent to China, whereafter he spent 3 years in a Russian Gulag in Siberia

Upon his return to Japan, he branched out on his own; with a unique vision grounded in the roots of the training & instruction he had received before WW2, but with a new style & concept to differentiate himself from his peers

In 1951 he was recognized with the Gold Award at the Japanese Art Expo

Following many prizes, In 1974 he was granted the Governors prize at the Nitten, & in 1980 the Niohon Geijutsu-in Sho (Japanese Art Academy prize)

In 1989 he was awarded the Kyoto Prefectural Cultural Order of Merit for his life-long endeavors

Works by him are held in the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art among others.