KAWAI KANJIRŌ
Box title: 草花文圗扁壺 (Sōkamonzu henko); Flattened Vessel with Flower and Plant Patterning
Box signature: 寛 (Kan)
Box seal: 河井寛之印 (Kawai Kan no in); Kawai Kan's seal
Note: Also includes handwritten documents by Kawai Toshitaka, director of the Kawai Kanjirō's House Museum and artist's grandson, dated to June 25, 1972
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Provenance
Documents included:
- A personal/hand-written letter from Kawai Toshitaka (grandson of the artist, current director at Kawai Kanjiro's House), dated June 25, 1972
- Invitation and tickets to the opening of Kawai Kanjiro’s House, 1973
- Pamphlet from Kawai Kanjiro’s House
- Letter from Kawai Tsune (the artist’s widow) commemorating the first anniversary of the opening of Kawai Kanjiro’s House
Hand-written wooden plaque from the exhibitionLiterature
Similar shape:
Kawai Kanjirō: The Kawakatsu Collection in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Kyoto: The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 2019, p. 121.
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.