KAWAI KANJIRŌ
Box title: 寛二郎作 飴釉塗分喰籠 (Kanjirō saku ameyū nuriwake jikirō); Made by Kanjirō, Yellowish-brown Glazed Box
Box signature: 河井紅苑識 (Kawai Kōha shiki); Authenticated by Kawai Kōha (Kawai Kanjirō’s granddaughter)
Box seal: 河井寛印 (Kawai Kan no in); Kawai Kan’s seal
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KAWAI KANJIRŌ (1890-1966)
Object: Rectangular box with matching cover decorated with abstract floral design in red, brown, and blue on a mustard-colored ground
Date: late 1940s
Media: Glazed stoneware
Dimensions: 5 5/8 x 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.
Box title: 寛二郎作 飴釉塗分喰籠 (Kanjirō saku ameyū nuriwake jikirō); Made by Kanjirō, Yellowish-brown Glazed Box
Box signature: 河井紅苑識 (Kawai Kōha shiki); Authenticated by Kawai Kōha (Kawai Kanjirō’s granddaughter)
Box seal: 河井寛印 (Kawai Kan no in); Kawai Kan’s seal
Price: $ 12,800
Similar work:
Kindaitōgei no kyosei Kawai Kanjirō ten (Kawai Kanjiro – Master of Modern Japanese Ceramics). Tokyo: Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, 1984, p. 71, pl. 38.
Similar glaze:
Kawai Kanjiro: The Kawakatsu Collection in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Kyoto: Toho Shuppan, 2005, p. 180, pl. 274.
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.
Literature
Similar work:
Kindaitōgei no kyosei Kawai Kanjirō ten (Kawai Kanjiro – Master of Modern Japanese Ceramics). Tokyo: Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, 1984, p. 71, pl. 38.
Similar glaze:
Kawai Kanjiro: The Kawakatsu Collection in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Kyoto: Toho Shuppan, 2005, p. 180, pl. 274.
Reference:
Baekeland, Frederick. Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections. New York: Japan Society, 1993, pp. 53-55, 65-66, 142-145.
Kawai Kanjirō no tōgei: Kagakusha no me to shijin no kokoro (Ceramics of Kawai Kanjirō: Eyes of a Scientist and Heart of a Poet). Higashi Osaka Art Museum, Seto City Art Museum, Hatsukaichi Art Gallery, 2013.
Mintz, Robert, with Betsy Feinberg and Joan B. Mirviss. The Betsy and Robert Feinberg Collection: Japanese Ceramics for the Twenty-first Century. Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, 2014, p. 83.
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