© Toshiko Takaezu
Interpretation
Takezu was at the forefront of a movement that shifted ceramics from a craft into an art form. She transformed ordinary clay vessels, such as these porcelain pots, by closing the vessels’ mouths, removing their practical function and turning them into pure sculpture. Inside these closed forms, however, Takaezu often left a clay rattle, causing each pot to ring like a bell.
Information
- Title
- Untitled
- Object Number
- 2006-500
- Maker
- Toshiko Takaezu
- Medium
- Porcelain
- Dates
- 1990s
- Dimensions
- h. 20 cm, diam. 14.7 cm (7 7/8 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the artist
- Culture
- American
- Place made
- North America, United States
- Signatures
- Signed on bottom.
- Materials
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2006," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 66 (2007): p. 41-74., p. 44
- Cary Y. Liu, "Presence and remembrance: the art of Toshiko Takaezu," Art Museum 68 (2009): p. 46-59., p. 53, fig. 15
- Cary Y. Liu, Presence and remembrance: the art of Toshiko Takaezu, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2010).
- Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery, Princeton University Art Museum (July 14– September 23, 2012)
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