the box wrriten by Kawai Takeichi, nephew of Kawai Kanjiro.
Showa
D14cm×7cm H12cm
An inkstone screen adorned with a freely flowing slip-trailed design on a softly textured white porcelain surface.
Within its restrained composition, the work embodies the powerful yet warm lines distinctive to Kawai Kanjiro. The spontaneous quality of the brushwork harmonizes beautifully with its serene presence, shaped by an eloquent use of negative space.
Kanjiro KAWAI（河井寛次郎）
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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