"Blue Mist" vase Heisei era (1989-2019), 2002 The porcelain hexagonal vase with rectangular cover, two of the sides with vertical stripes in two shades of blue, the other four sides and the top with the artist's characteristic relief zigzag patterning, the blue glaze sprinkled with silver, gold, and platinum producing droplets on the surface of the finished vessel, signed on the base with characters drawn in the soft clay, in Japanese and Roman script Takahiro Kondo and signed under the lid in roman script Kondo Wood tomobako storage box inscribed Ginga seisui ("Blue Mist"), signed Takahiro, and sealed 10 3/8in (26.4cm) high