Toshiko Takaezu was an American ceramic artist and painter. She was born to Japanese immigrant parents in Pepeekeo, Hawaii, in 1922. She studied at the Honolulu Museum of Art and the University of Hawaii under Claude Horan from 1948–51.
From 1951–54, Takaezu continued her studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she befriended Finnish ceramist Maija Grotell, who became her mentor. In 1955, Takaezu traveled to Japan, where she studied Buddhism, visited Shoji Hamada and observed the techniques of traditional Japanese pottery, which continued to influence her work. She taught for 10 years at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and then from 1967–92, she taught at Princeton University, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate.
Takaezu retired in 1992 to become a studio artist, living and working in Quakertown, New Jersey, about 30 miles northwest of Princeton. In addition to her studio in New Jersey, Takaezu made many of her larger sculptures at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. She made functional wheel-thrown vessels early in her career. Later, she switched to abstract sculptures with freely applied poured and painted glazes.
In the early 1970s, when Takaezu didn’t have access to a kiln, she painted on canvas. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, among many others.
Takaezu was the recipient of the Gold Medal of the American Craft Council and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant. She lived in Hawaii for 10 years and died March 9, 2011, in Honolulu.
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Ceramic Closed-Form Moon Pot by Toshiko Takaezu
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Atlanta, GA
A ceramic closed-form pot by Japanese American artist Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922 - 2011), circa 1980-1990s. The moon pot takes a near perfect rounded form. It has small sprout w...
Ceramic
Ceramic Closed-Form Moon Pot by Toshiko Takaezu
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Atlanta, GA
A ceramic closed-form pot by Japanese American artist Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922 - 2011), circa 1980-1990s. The small moon pot takes a near perfect rounded form. It has small sp...
Ceramic
Ceramic Moon Pot with Salt Firing and Rattle by Toshiko Takaezu
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Atlanta, GA
A ceramic closed-form pot with rattle by Japanese American artist Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922 - 2011) circa 1980s. The wheel-thrown closed-form pot features a a nearly perfect sp...
Ceramic
Stig Lindberg Stoneware Vase, Blue Glaze, Gustavsberg, 1950s
By Stig Lindberg
Located in Paris, FR
Stig Lindberg, (1916-1982) Stoneware Vase with amazing blue glaze for Gustavsberg studio, 1950s, Sweden Impressed "Stig L.", "Drejargods" and Gustavsberg studio hand.
Ceramic
$9,500
H 5.5 in Dm 4.5 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging wonderfully glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color,...
Porcelain, Pottery
Glazed Ceramic Bowl Chawan Toshiko Takaezu
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Atlanta, GA
A ceramic bowl by Japanese American artist Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922 - 2011). The deep form bowl is of the typical form of Chawan and features a wheel-turned body supported by ...
Ceramic
Cobalt vase by Jackie Crapanzano Arte, Italy, 21st Century
Located in Greding, DE
Modern spherical vase with narrow opening and cobalt blue painting. Signed on the base.
Ceramic
$10,473
H 9.45 in Dm 8.27 in
Large, Stunning Deep Blue Stoneware Vase, Berndt Friberg, Gustavsberg - 1966
By Berndt Friberg, Gustavsberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
A large stunning blue stoneware vase by Berndt Friberg at Gustavsberg designed in 1966, the vase has a lovely blue har-fur glaze. The vase is 24 cm (9.6") tall and about 21 cm (´8.4"...
Stoneware
Large Ceramic Bowl with Abstract Glaze by Toshiko Takaezu
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large ceramic bowl (Chawan) by Japanese American artist Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922 - 2011). The deep form bowl features a wheel-turned robust body supported by a short round f...
Ceramic
$1,190
H 17.72 in Dm 17.72 in
Japanese Studio Ceramic Vase by Oshio Tadashi, Blue Glaze, Nara, 20th Century
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A striking Japanese studio ceramic vase by Oshio Tadashi (大塩正), an accomplished contemporary potter from Nara whose career reflects a sustained and well-documented engagement with Ja...
Ceramic
Berndt Friberg Weed Pot with Blue Glaze, 1965
By Berndt Friberg
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This pot bears a dark blue rim descending to a gorgeous robin’s egg blue body. Mint condition. Incised with the Friberg signature, the Gustavsberg mark and “G” indicating the date o...
Ceramic
Peter Voulkos Studio Vase
By Peter Voulkos
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) - Black Studio pot, circa 1953-1955. Signed “Voulkos” on the base. Voulkos, an American artist of Greek descent, was known for his Abstract Expressionist ceramic...
Clay
James Lovera California Studio Potter Ceramic Vase, circa 1950s-1960s
By James Lovera
Located in Phoenix, AZ
James Lovera (1920-2015) ceramic studio vase. This beautiful vase by James Lovera has a wonderful and unusual copper colored glaze and dates to the 1960s, perhaps as early as the ...
Clay
Emmanuel Cooper Important British Ceramist Flared Footed Studio Bowl
By Emmanuel Cooper
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Emmanuel Cooper (1938 - 2012) UK Ceramist - flared footed studio bowl. The interior is decorated with an alternating pink and blue pinwheel design. Excellent condition. The EC mark...
Ceramic
Important California Potter Carlton Ball, Studio Ceramic Lidded Vase
By F. Carlton Ball
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Carlton Ball (1911-1992) studio ceramic lidded vase, circa 1960s-1970s. Beautiful green and brown glaze with sgraffito swirl design on the body. Signed on the bottom “F. Carlton Ball”. Excellent condition. Measures: 7 1/8" H (includes lid) x 5 3/4" W. Born 1911 in Sutter Creek, California, Frederick was a ceramicist, ceramics professor, and author of Making Pottery Without a Wheel. He taught ceramics for over 50 years at several different colleges including the University of Puget Sound...
Ceramic
Rose Cabat Studio Ceramic Flared Bowl
By Rose Cabat
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This rose Cabat flared ceramic bowl bears an exterior glaze of bluish grey with large drips showing near the base. The interior glaze is two shades of turquoise fading to a mauve...
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