Yellow glaze, crackle, and a turtle

Read the silhouette first

The pot is small and round, on low feet. Its bright yellow glaze makes the compact outline easy to read — which is where any look at a pot should begin.

Then move closer

A network of crackle lines runs through the yellow. The crackle is part of what you are looking at, not background: it is worth seeing close enough to read.

A turtle on the rim

A green turtle climbs onto the rim. It interrupts the circle and gives the eye a place to arrive. The pot is best understood by moving between the whole outline and this one modelled detail.

Where this pot sits

Furumoto was born into a family in the bonsai trade and began making pots at eighteen. His recorded work is an amber glaze over a basket-weave relief. This yellow pot is a different thing, and we do not present it as part of that recorded body of work.

The foot carries a small gourd-shaped impression which the owner has confirmed reads 正志. His maker page sets out the two mark forms currently documented there.