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GORGEOUS CERAMIC BOWL w/box, Japanese, KAWAI KANJIRO browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1940: item # 466144 Please refer to our stock # TCR1640 when inquiring.
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| This is a fabulous bowl by 20th century ceramic master Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966), enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box dating from the 1930s. The true mastery of this artist comes out in this most basic of forms. A simple basin, with no foot or adornment, punctuated by 6 lines, and yet the effect is phenomenal. Inside covered in gosu blue glaze with three horizontal bands surrounding a center dial of squiggly lines in white; the outside only glazed halfway down, revealing the rich red clay beneath. The dish is 8-1/2 inches (22 cm) in diameter, 2-1/4 inches (5.7 cm) tall, and in perfect condition. Kanjiro was a true artist by nature, and together with Hamada Shoji, set a standard for modern potters. After graduating the Tokyo School of Industrial Design, he came to study in Kyoto, eventually establishing his own kiln on the Gojo-no-Saka (It remains standing today and is a must see for anyone visiting Kyoto). Together with compatriots Shoji and Bernard Leach (with whom he traveled throughout Asia) established the modern Mingei movement in ceramics, the most influential ceramics movement in the 20th century. His research on glazes (of which he developed thousands over a lifetime of work) remains influential as well. Refusing to be limited to ceramics, Kanjiro also worked in bronze, wood and paint. An interesting final note on this unusual artist, when offered the title of Living National Treasure, an honor bestowed on very few, he declined | |||||||||
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