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accession number:	1992.108
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.108
updated:		2025-06-20 11:29:57.820000

Lidded Vessel, 1992. Koike Shōko (Japanese, b. 1943). Glazed stoneware; 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:				Lidded Vessel
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creation date:			1992
creation date earliest:		1992
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creditline:			Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Keiko Kumita, Mr. Masaharu Nagano, and Mr. Klaus Naumann
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culture:	Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
technique:	Glazed stoneware
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Ceramic
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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.]
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measurements: Diameter: 38.1 cm (15 in.); with cover: 43.2 cm (17 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary
	opening date:   1992-10-27T05:00:00
	<i>Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993).

	title:		Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay
	opening date:   2024-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1992
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1992–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 78
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388

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