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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: KAWAI KANJIRŌ, Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s

KAWAI KANJIRŌ

Cobalt-glazed (gosu) flattened circular vessel with raised rectangular mouth and carved decoration, ca. 1950s-60s
Glazed stoneware
10 1/8 x 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.
Box title: 呉洲扁壺泥刷毛目 (Gosu henko doro hakeme); Cobalt Glazed Flattened Vessel with Brushed Slip
Box signature: 寛 (Kan)
Box seal: 河井寛之印 (Kawai Kan no in); Kawai Kanjirō's seal
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Literature

Similar works:

Ceramics of Kawai Kanjirō: Eyes of a Scientist and Heart of a Poet. With essays by Imai Jun, Fumitaka Hattori, Yamada Hiroki. Higashi Osaka Art Museum, Seto City Art Museum, Hatsukaichi Art Gallery, 2013, p. 82, pl. 104


Kawai no shinjitsu (The Real Kawai Kanjiro: Celebrating the 120th Anniversary of Kawai Kanjiro's Birth). Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, 2009, p. 52.


National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, ed. Kawai Kanjirō: Kyōto kokuritsu kindai bijutsukan shozō sakuhin shū; Kawai Kanjirō: The Kawakatsu Collection in the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Kyoto: Mitsumura Suiko Shoin Publishing Co., Ltd, 2019, p. 291.


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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