A modernist black glazed hanging wall vase by Takeuchi Kozo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kakehana.It is 21 x 4 x 21 cm (8 x 1-1/2 x 8 inches) , suspended by a ring of wire on back and is in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Takeuchi Kozo (also Kouzo) was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1977, and graduated the Osaka University of Arts in 2001 before advancing his studies at the Tajimi Municipal Ceramic Design Institute where he graduated in 2003.Beside an extensive list of solo exhibits in Japan he has been subject of exhibition in Paris and Boston as well as the Hyogo prefectural Ceramics Museum in 2024.His work decorates the Ritz Carlton Hotels in Tokyo and Kyoto, The Peninsula and Palace Hotels in Tokyo, the Mandarin Oriental in Shanghai, and the flagship Hoshinoya Resorts in both Tokyo and Kyoto among others. He is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Museum of Ceramic Art in Hyogo, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Museum Sernuschi in Paris among others.
