The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Smooth blue-white porcelain bowl with an undulating shape, pinched to the point on opposite sides. The very edge of the bowl appears white, casting faint shadows on the outside of the bowl below.

Bowl

1990

Kawase Shinobu

(Japanese, b. 1950)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Porcelain with bluish-white glaze
Diameter: 26.7 cm (10 1/2 in.); Overall: 7.6 cm (3 in.)
Gift of T. Dixon Long 1991.215
Location: Not on view

Description

Kawase Shinobu comes from a family of potters with more than a century of tradition in engaging with Chinese prototypes. The bowl has a bluish-white glaze that resembles Chinese qingbai (青白) glazes of the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279).
  • ?–1991
    (Sugimoto Works of Art, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art with funds from T. Dixon Long)
    1991–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).
  • {{cite web|title=Bowl|url=false|author=Kawase Shinobu|year=1990|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1991.215