Jar

Object Details

• Artist

  Kawai Kanjiro 河井寛次郎 (1890-1966)

• Description

  This bottle was formed in a mold as a rectangular vessel with strongly defined neck and foot. It is glazed with pale, cobalt-tinted blue-gray glaze except at the neck and foot, which are finished with brown iron glaze. On both wide sides a similar circular floral motif (probably an orchid) is painted freely with darker blue cobalt, iron, and copper (oxidized to red).

• Previous custodian or owner

  Aileen Aderton (1904-2005)

• Provenance

  From 1948-1949 to 1994

  Aileen Aderton, Mitchellville, Maryland, purchased from an unknown dealer in Kyoto in 1948-1949 [1]

  From 1994

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Aileen Aderton in 1994

  Notes:

  [1] Mrs. Aderton reported in a telephone conversation (August 16, 1994) that she purchased the jar from a dealer's shop in Kyoto when she was living there from February 1948 to August 1949 as an education officer with the American Occupation.

  Subsequently she showed the jar to Kawai Kanjiro, who confirmed that it was his (according to Provenance Remark 1, L.A. Cort, December 6, 1994, in the object record).

• Origin

  Kyoto, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Aileen Aderton

• Type

  Vessel

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• Date

  1940s, 1930s

• Name

  Aderton, Aileen, Kawai, Kanjiro

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan

• Topic

  Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Stoneware, Japanese Art, Flowers

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)