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Asian Art
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.
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