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Open · Until 3 Jan 2027

The Kondō Family

Storytellers in Clay

Kondō Yūzō, Jar with Thistle, ca. 1950

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2024

The Kondō Family is on view at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, United States, until January 3, 2027.

Last verified October 23, 2026 · Official source ↗

An exhibition at the Seattle Asian Art Museum presenting sixty works by four Kondō family artists across three generations. It traces a century of Kyoto ceramic artistry, emphasizing how each generation approached porcelain and sometsuke techniques as both a tradition and a point of creative departure.

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  1. Seattle Art Museum
    Seattle, United States · July 15, 2026 – January 3, 2027
    Until 3 Jan 2027

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A white porcelain jar of barrel form, painted in cobalt blue with a single spiky thistle plant and its jagged leaves, with plain blue bands at the shoulder and foot.

Kondō Yūzō, Jar with Thistle, ca. 1950

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2024 · Source ↗