Kawai Kanjiro and Kawai Factory ("Shokeiyo" kiln)
Plate
1947-1957
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Stoneware with brown slip and black glazes, 2 3/4 x 8 in. (7 x 20.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Stephen W. Fisher, Baltimore, in Loving Memory of Laurance and Isabel Roberts
Object Number
2012.615
Stoneware with brown slip and black glazes Japanese potter Kawai Kanjiro was part of a 20th-century movement promoting crafts that had been displaced by industrialization. Along with Englishman Bernard Leach and Japanese artists and artisans including Yanagi Soetsu, Hamada Shoji, and Shiko Munakata, he kept alive many of Japan’s craft
traditions. Kanjiro’s ceramics are not signed because he believed his work was its own signature.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2012; Stephen W. Fisher, Baltimore, by gift in 2001; from Laurance and Isabel Roberts, Baltimore
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of art, "Across East Asia: China's Cultural & Artistic Legacy," October 30, 2019-December 31, 2023.
