Ever since the 19th-century English designer Christopher Dresser picked up a deliberately rough Japanese tea bowl and wrote in ecstasy about the beauty of its texture compared with the sleek industrial finish of Western ceramics, there has been some understanding in the West of Japanese ceramics. This is growing now, fueled in part by the strong market for sculptural ceramics ("craft" is a word best avoided) in the US and Europe.
The Art Newspaper talked to the New York dealer Joan B. Mirviss, who began by dealing in the 1970s in Japanese antiques, but quickly branched out into contemporary Japanese ceramics.
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September 30, 2007