Ovoid vase / Kawai Kanjirô
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2003/2.15
- Title
- Ovoid vase
- Artist
- Kawai Kanjirô
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- (1890 - 1966)
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with iron glaze; scallop design created with wax resist
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1937-1938
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Spurr
- Style/Group/Movement
- mingei
- Dimensions
- 24.8 cm x 19.6 cm x 16 cm (9 3/4 in. x 7 11/16 in. x 6 5/16 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- vase
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Secondary Object Type
- vase
- Subject Matter
- Kawai Kanjirô
- Japan, 1890–1966
- Ovoid bottle
- Showa period (1926–1989)
- circa 1950
- Stoneware
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Spurr, 2003/2.15
- Vase
- 1960–63
- Stoneware with off-white and colored glazes
- Museum purchase, 1963/2.70
- This brown and white bottle was made using the neriage (meaning “kneading up”) technique invented in China. Neriage involves layering white and dark-colored clays, cutting the resulting slab into slices, and then layering the already-layered clay slices to create intricate patterns. In the 1950s, Kawai returned to this technique, first mastered during his youthful fascination with Chinese ceramics, after a lapse of twenty years. His later works, however, including this bottle, have a strong graphic quality that suggests a modern sensibility.
- In the 1960s, Kawai also created a group of sculptural pieces with a splatter application of colorful glazes that recalled the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock. Even in these experimental works, however, he stayed true to the principle of utility by retaining the vessel form.
- (Turning Point exhibition at UMMA)
- Round bodied vase with neck and foot. Scalloped designs of iron red shades and off-white repeat, encircling the vase body and foot.
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- (Turning Point exhibition, Spring 2010)
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- design elements
- edging and surfacing patterns
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- patterns (design elements)
- patterns by specific type
- vessels
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2016 x 2388
- File Size
- 124 KB
- Record
- 2003/2.15
- Link to this Item
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