MIYASHITA ZENJI (1939-2012) Wind on a Dark Night Heisei era (1989-2019), late 20th/early 21st centuryImportant works of art from an American private collectionMIYASHITA ZENJI (1939-2012)Wind on a Dark Night Heisei era (1989-2019), late 20th/early 21st centuryThe flattened rhomboid stoneware body with thin layers of delicately gradated colored clay in irregular bands covering the whole surface, ranging from black to pale blue-gray, the narrow mouth, shoulder ridge, and sides finished in dark glaze, signed underneath in blue glaze MIYASHITAWood tomobako storage box inscribed Saidei kaki Anya no kaze (Colored clay vessel, "Wind on a Dark Night") and signed and sealed Zenji 12 3/4 x 10 1/4 x 5 7/8in (32.5 x 26 x 15cm)Miyashita Zenji's works find pride of place in numerous American private and public collections, admired for their striking marriage of sculptural form with evocative decoration using clay with varying proportions of cobalt, chrome, and other metal-based pigments, applied in thin, overlapping bands with irregular edges.