Kamoda Shoji

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Tall rectangular vessel with blue and white enameled banner pattern

1977

Glazed stoneware with enamel inlay

17 x 5 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches

Inv# 10289

SOLD

White-glazed vessel with wide mouth and tapering lower body with vertical triple ribbon patterns in overglaze blue, white and black enamel of white, blue and green on front and verso

1976

Glazed stoneware

9 5/8 x 7 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.

Inv# 9173

SOLD

Kamoda, Shoji, Kamoda Shoji, vessel, vase, blue, enamel, glazed, stoneware, ceramics, Japanese, modern, Japanese ceramics, 1976

Large vessel with blue enamel glazed banding
1976
Glazed stoneware
10 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.
Inv# 6763
SOLD

Circular vessel formed with bands of curvilinear colored-clay inlays

1972

stoneware with glazed interior

6 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches

Inv# 10019

SOLD

Kamoda, Shoji, Kamoda Shoji, vessel, vase, black, octagon, faceted, glazed, stoneware, ceramics, Japanese, modern, Japanese ceramics, 1968

Black octagonal faceted vessel with small mouth
1968
Glazed stoneware
10 x 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.
Inv# 8189
SOLD

Biography

Long considered by many experts to be the greatest Japanese ceramic artist of the 20th century, Kamoda Shoji was able to accomplish in half of a life-time what other artists struggle to partially attain in double the time. In an unrivalled period of productivity from 1966-78, Kamoda transformed the aesthetic appreciation of modern ceramics. Always nominally functional, his stoneware “vessels” are ever imaginative in form, line, balance, glazing and decorative adornment. Today, after his premature death at age forty-nine, artists continue to copy and reinterpret his numerous inventive forms and designs.