Vase

Object Details

• Artist

  Kitamura Junko (Japan, born 1956)

• Label

  Kitamura's patterning of her ceramic forms is reminiscent of certain contemporary textiles or prints in its crisp execution and sleek fit on the form. Nevertheless, she does use a technique—inlay of white slip into the impressed depressions—that refers to the slip-inlay technique used prominently on Choson-period Korean and Edo-period Japanese ceramics, and she states that the images for her pieces arise from the patterns on Jomon earthenware. In this reworking of tradition, she is representative of Kyoto ceramic artists who have been masters of reinterpretation since the seventeenth century.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Reinventing the Wheel: Japanese Ceramics 1930 - 2000 (July 23, 2011 - June 30, 2013)

• Origin

  Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1990s

• Name

  Kitamura, Junko

• Place

  Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto prefecture

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Heisei era (1989 - 2019), Art, Inlay (process), Stoneware, Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)