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Porcelain sculpture, enameled white and blue, representing a turkey, hollowed on the edge signature of the Japanese artist Ytiga Noumata, animal sculptor, active in Sèvres from 1904 to 1927. Under the base Sèvres stamp with rose and letter for 1931.
Ytiga Noumata began his apprenticeship at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he specialized in realistic zoomorphic representations. He studied French with the aim of training in France and obtained the status of an intern at the Manufacture de Sèvres. He realizes that ceramics can be a means of sculptural expression and that it should not be limited to the anecdotal framework of the small decorative object. The sculptor also shows his desire to adapt the Sèvres processes to a more Japanese iconography. It was with Auguste Rodin, with whom Noumata worked from 1905 to 1906, that he perfected himself in the modeling of the earth, before his return to Japan, where he played a fundamental role in the revival of ceramics and sculpture. He stayed a second time in Sèvres in 1921. Appointed head of the sculpture department at the Kyoto Experimental Ceramics Institute in 1932, he went so far as to create, in 1937, the Japan Ceramic Sculpture Association. In 1941, he had a wood-burning oven built on the model of those in Sèvres and in 1946, he founded a research institute for decorative ceramic sculpture in Seto. He is generally considered the founder of ceramic sculpture in his country. The first Japanese to receive the Legion of Honor, he created about twenty sculptures during his two stays at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres.
Ytiga Noumata began his apprenticeship at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, where he specialized in realistic zoomorphic representations. He studied French with the aim of training in France and obtained the status of an intern at the Manufacture de Sèvres. He realizes that ceramics can be a means of sculptural expression and that it should not be limited to the anecdotal framework of the small decorative object. The sculptor also shows his desire to adapt the Sèvres processes to a more Japanese iconography. It was with Auguste Rodin, with whom Noumata worked from 1905 to 1906, that he perfected himself in the modeling of the earth, before his return to Japan, where he played a fundamental role in the revival of ceramics and sculpture. He stayed a second time in Sèvres in 1921. Appointed head of the sculpture department at the Kyoto Experimental Ceramics Institute in 1932, he went so far as to create, in 1937, the Japan Ceramic Sculpture Association. In 1941, he had a wood-burning oven built on the model of those in Sèvres and in 1946, he founded a research institute for decorative ceramic sculpture in Seto. He is generally considered the founder of ceramic sculpture in his country. The first Japanese to receive the Legion of Honor, he created about twenty sculptures during his two stays at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres.
