Details
Decorated with an abstract motif in various brown and green glazes against a cream glaze ground
15.9 cm. (6¼ inches) diam.

Please note this lot is the property of a private consignor.
Literature
Published in: Mingei International Museum, Martha W. Longenecker, ed., Mingei of Japan: The Legacy of The Founders - Soetsu Yanagi, Shoji Hamada, Kanjiro Kawai, (California, 2006), p. 122-123
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Kawai Kanjiro lived and worked in Kyoto and was a key member of the Mingei movement. He was a long-time friend of Hamada Shoji, Yanagi Soetsu, and Bernard Leach with whom he co-founded the Japan Folk Art Association in 1926. By the mid-1930s, Kawai developed a slab-molding technique to create tiered boxes and sculptural vases and used natural glazes. Examples of his work are in the collection of The Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Tokyo.

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