KAWAI KANJIRŌ
Box title: 三色扁壺 (Sanshoku henko); Three-color Glazed Flattened Vessel
Box signature: 寛 (Kan)
Box seal: 河井寛印 (Kawai Kan no in); Kawai Kan's seal
Further images
Literature
Similar work:
Kawai Kanjiro: Kawai Kanjiro – Bifubifuji. Osaka: Daimaru Shinsaibashi Art Gallery, 2003, pl. 46.
Other examples of sançai glazing
50 Year Anniversary After Kawai Kanjirō's Passing – Kawai Kanjiro. Edited by Hasegawa Yumiko, Yamazaki Tsuyoshi, Aihata Keiji, Nakagawa Takao. Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, 2016, pp. 120-123.
Kawai Kanjiro: The Kawakatsu Collection in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Kyoto: Toho Shuppan, 2005, p. 258, pl. 419.
Kindaitōgei no kyosei Kawai Kanjirō ten (Kawai Kanjiro – Master of Modern Japanese Ceramics). Tokyo: Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, 1984, p. 91, pl. 130.
General references:
Baekeland, Frederick. Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections. New York: Japan Society, 1993, pp. 53-55, 65-66, 142-145.
Kawai Kanjirō to Munakata Shikō: Nihon mingeikan shozōhin o chūshin ni (Kawai Kanjirō and Munakata Shikō: Collection of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum). Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art, 2016.
Painted Clay: Wada Morihiro and Modern Ceramics of Japan. With essays by Diana X. Yang and Alice North and introduction by Joan Mirviss. New York: Joan B Mirviss LTD, 2023, pp. 38 and 40.
Todate, Kazuko and Ann Nishimura Morse. Earth, Fire, Woven Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Bamboo Art. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 27, 32-33, 140.
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