Three Color Bottle Vase
ca. 1965
Kawai Kanjiro
Japanese, 1890-1966
Asian Art
The twentieth-century potter Kawai Kanjirō was a master glaze technician who rediscovered a number of historical glaze and enamel types and found innovative ways to combine them. On this slab-built bottle he created complex abstract patterns by overlapping splashes of color on a faceted, rough clay surface.
- Maker/Artist
- Kawai Kanjiro
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- Stoneware
- Medium
- stoneware
- Locations
- Place made: Japan
- Period
- Showa Period
- Dimensions
- 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (24.8 x 14.6 cm)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 75.120.1
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Herbert Meadow
- Exhibitions
- Japanese Ceramics, Arts of Japan
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Asian Galleries, North, 2nd floor (Japan)
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