The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Vessel (lid)

1992

Koike Shōko

(Japanese, b. 1943)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
stoneware with applied glaze
Diameter: 38.1 cm (15 in.); with cover: 43.2 cm (17 in.)
Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Mrs. Keiko Kumita, Mr. Masaharu Nagano, and Mr. Klaus Naumann 1992.108.b
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Ceramicist Koike Shōko is a recipient of the Japanese Ceramic Society’s top award.

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.
  • ?–1992
    Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1992–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.108.b