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KAWAI KANJIRO (1890-1966)
A stoneware chaire (container for tea)
Showa era (1926-1989), mid-late 20th
century
The square box decorated in underglaze blue,
red and green with stylized flowers
2 7/8 x 2 7/8 x 2 7/8in (7.2 x 7.2 x 7.2cm)

$1,500 - 2,500
Provenance
Ex-Claude Horan collection

Exhibited
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, “Subtle
Beauty: Modern Japanese Ceramics from the
Collection of Joel Barish,” March-April, 2008.

Claude Horan (1917-2014), served as the head
of the ceramics program at the University of
Hawaii from 1967 to 1978.
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SHIMAOKA TATSUZO (1919-2007)
A stoneware dish
Showa era (1926-1989), circa 1990
The square dish decorated in iron oxide
and blue glaze with roundels of stylized
blossoms, the body with slip-inlaid impressed
rope pattern, signed on the underside with
impressed seal in katakana, Ta
With a wood tomobako storage box inscribed
Ji uwagusuri zogan Jomon kakuzara (Glazed
rope-impressed square dish), signed and
sealed Tatsuzo 8 5/8 x 8 5/8in (21.9 x 21.9cm)
$1,000 - 1,500

Provenance
Purchased in 1990 from the artist’s studio by
Jasper Bond, one of the artist’s apprentices
and later acquired by the current owner

Exhibited
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, “Subtle
Beauty: Modern Japanese Ceramics from the
Collection of Joel Barish,” March-April, 2008.
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KITAOJI ROSANJIN (1883-1959)
A Shino-style dish
Showa era (1926-1989), circa 1950
The circular stoneware dish decorated with
autumn grasses in underglaze iron, covered
in a creamy feldspathic glaze, signed on the
underside in katakana, Ro
With a wood tomobako storage box inscribed
E-Shino hirazara ichi (One decorated E-Shino
flat dish), signed Rosanjin and sealed Mukyo 7
3/8in (18.7cm) diameter
$2,000 - 3,000
Provenance
Sidney Cardozo
Previously sold, Christie’s, New York, October
15, 2001, lot 96

Published
Kozo Yoshida and Elise Grilli, The Ceramic
Art of Kitaoji Rosanjin: Three American
Collections, Kyoto, Benrido, 1964, no. 36.

Exhibited
1273 Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, “Subtle
Beauty: Modern Japanese Ceramics from the
Collection of Joel Barish,” March-April, 2008.
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