- Provenance
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- Label
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Although Kawai Kanjiro helped to establish the Japanese Folk Craft Movement in the 1920s, the ideal of the 'unknown craftsman' proved incompatible with his strong individualism. In contrast to the work of Hamada Shoji, Kawai's work shows a sequence of distinct transformations of style, from the Chinese copies of his youth to the abstract expressionism of his last years. This mold-formed box bears a soft blue-gray glaze tinted with cobalt and patterned complexly with chrome and iron glazes, a format that he used during the 1940s.
- Collection Area(s)
- Japanese Art
- Web Resources
- Whistler's Neighborhood
- Google Cultural Institute
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