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Asian Art
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Artist: Tsuji Seimei, Japanese, 1927–2008
Tea Caddy (Cha-ire)
ca. 1992
Shigaraki ware; unglazed stoneware with an ivory lid
3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)
Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss, B.S. 1940S
2001.58.4
Geography:
Japan
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Heisei era (1989–2019)
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Collection of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Bibliography:
Tsuji Seimei, Hono ni Ikiru: Tsuji Seimei jiden (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1996).
Kazumi Kurigami, “Tsuji, Seimei: asobi o sentoya umarekemu,” Bessatsu Taiyo 93 (1996).
Sadako Ohki, Twentieth-Century Japanese Ceramics at the Yale University Art Gallery: The Collections of Molly and Water Bareiss, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 8–9, 14, no. 23, fig. 23.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
