id: 156264 accession number: 1992.108 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.108 updated: 2022-07-28 09:00:54.822000 Vessel, 1992. Koike Shōko (Japanese, b. 1943). Stoneware with applied glaze; diameter: 38.1 cm (15 in.); with cover: 43.2 cm (17 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Keiko Kumita, Mr. Masaharu Nagano, and Mr. Klaus Naumann 1992.108 title: Vessel title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1992 creation date earliest: 1992 creation date latest: 1992 current location: ALOB Asian Lobby creditline: Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Keiko Kumita, Mr. Masaharu Nagano, and Mr. Klaus Naumann copyright: --- culture: Japan, Heisei period (1989-2019) technique: stoneware with applied glaze department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Koike Shōko (Japanese, b. 1943) - artist Koike Shoko is one of a number of younger women potters who have begun to appear on the stage of Japanese ceramics, long an almost exclusive purview of men. She is the second daughter of the branch mananger of a paper manufacturing company who died on the battlefield in 1945. At first she wanted to become a glass maker, but, unable to sudy glass at Tokyo Art University (B.A., 1966, M.F.A., 1969), she turned to ceramics and became so proficient that she won its Salon de Printemps Award with her graduation piece. After building a kiln in Tama, Tokyo, she exhibited only in one-woman shows at Tokyo ceramics and crafts galleries, and in department store group exhibitions. Koike made relatively small vessels and sculptures until 1991 when she began to produce works on a larger scale. [From "Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections," Japan Society, 1993.] --- measurements: Diameter: 38.1 cm (15 in.); with cover: 43.2 cm (17 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary opening date: 1992-10-27T04:00:00 Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: Ceramicist Koike Shōko is a recipient of the Japanese Ceramic Society’s top award. digital description: wall description: Koike Shōko, one of the first women to graduate from the renowned ceramics department at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, often draws her forms from the ocean. The artist has shaped this lidded vessel as a shell, with sweeping curves and serrated edges, capturing an undulating sense of movement. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES