Flask (Translation)
藍釉鐵繪扁壷 昭和時代 河井寬次郎 (Primary Title)
Kawai Kanjiro, Japanese, 1890 - 1966 (Artist)
A leading artist in the Mingei (folk art) movement of the mid-1920s, Kawai Kanjiro made ceramics with austere forms and inventive glazes. Fired at his kiln in Kyoto, this vessel exemplifies Kawai’s fascination with the striking blue and purple glazes of Chinese Jun ware. Like his friend Hamada Shoji and other contemporary Mingei potters, Kawai did not sign his works.
Showa period (1926-1989)
One seal
Gift of the Estate of T. Catesby Jones
"Japanese Art," VMFA Artmobile Exhibition, February 1968 - May 1969
©artist or artist’s estate
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