D.22.4cm H.9.5cm
This bowl is made of purple-red glaze that imitates the Chinese Jun ware, which is difficult to produce colors. The blue ground and the vivid reddish purple color are blended together, and the gradation of the blended areas is magnificent.
Kanjiro, who was reputed to be a "genius who suddenly appears like a comet," had doubts about his own ceramics by this time and refrained from showing his works in solo exhibitions to explore his own ceramics. Later, he broke his silence and presented works including purple-red glaze, which was different from his previous style. Influenced by folk art, his ceramic expression became more conscious of everyday life.
Kanjiro KAWAI
1890 - 1966
Kanjirou Kawai was a Kyoto-based potter within the folk tradition of Japanese and Korean ceramics and a key figure in Mingei (Japanese folk art movement). He was a long-time friend of Shōji Hamada, Soetsu Yanagi, and Bernard Leach with whom he co-founded the Japan Folk Art Association in 1926. He refused all official honors, such as the designation of “Living National Treasures,” He often decorated his works with bold, semiabstract blossom motifs, which he painted freely in under-glaze cobalt blue, iron brown, and copper red.
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