Japanese Bizen guinomi (sake cup) by Harada Shuroku

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #814797
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Harada (b. 1941) is considered one of the finest Bizen potters alive today. He has won numerous awards and prizes, including the Japanese Ceramic Society prize. This a very strongly potted and carved guinomi (sake cup or wine cup) with a nice overlay of milky white flying goma contrasting with the dark body of the guinomi. It is 2” high and 2 ½” in diameter. It is in excellent condition.

Japanese Nezumi Shino vase by Tsukamoto Haruhiko

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Vases Contemporary: item #814794
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Tsukamoto (b. 1959) is from Gifu prefecture and is very accomplished in many of the Mino styles, including Shino and Oribe. This is a very finely glazed eared vase with a very richly surfaced Nezumi Shino glaze and an unusual placement of the ears. It comes with an artist's signed box. It is 9 ½” high and 5 ½” on the widest part. It is in excellent condition.

Japanese Hakuyu chawan (tea cup) by Ishii Takahiro

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #814791
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Ishii (b. 1977) is a very popular young Japanese potter who apprenticed under the well known Bizen potter, Kakurezaki Ryuichi. He fires in many styles and is constantly expanding his repertoire. His gallery shows are often sellouts. This is a very nice white glazed chawan (tea cup) with artist's box. It is 3 ¾” high and 5” wide. It is in excellent condition.

Contemporary Japanese Shigaraki Art Deco Vase

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Vases Pre 2000: item #814405
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Fired in the 1990's in Shigaraki, one of Japan's most esteemed ceramic pottery centers, this elegant art deco piece displays a wonderful sense of balance and asymmetry. The black ceramic juxtopositions nicely with the design motif on the edge to create a modern aesthetic that would fit anywhere. Very affordable. (19½" x 11" x 4") (49cm x 28cm x 10cm). EMS Shipping/Insurance to USA or Western Europe $110.

Modern Oil Spot ceramic Vase by Unokawa Kazumasa

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Vases Pre 2000: item #814198
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Mercuric silver slides silently down the mottle silver black of this bottle form Oil Spot vase by Unokawa Kazumasa enclosed in the original signed wooden box.  The drainage of silver in precise ribs down the side is quite striking, with the rich black separating slowly into crisply defined spots.  The vessel shows a mastery of the Tenmoku-Yuteki technique, one of the most difficult to control.  It is over 10 inches (25.5 cm) tall and in excellent condition.  According to Kazumasa, The clay will ... Click for details

Bizen Koro-Vase by Wakimoto Hiroyuki

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery Contemporary: item #813778

Wakimoto has such a powerful Noguchi way about his Bizen, surely one of the most inventive Bizen ceramic artists of the day. We continue to offer his recent works and today here is a koro-incense burner that can double as a vase; Wakimoto added small Bizen 'stones' to hold a stick of incense or a small flower arrangement. The firing is shibui with Wakimoto's multi-space firing the tops. In perfect condition with a signed box, 12.7cm.tallx16.5x9.5, signed on base.

Persian Blue Rozome Grass design Teabowl

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Contemporary: item #813585
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Persian, raqqa glazed chawan with rozome traditional technique underglaze grasses decoration of

White earthenware, black underglaze decoration and traditional Persian blue glaze

5.2" X 4.35"

Please note, this piece is made using traditional pourous white e... Click for details

White Hagi Chawan by Shimizu Keiko

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Contemporary: item #813415

A magnificent chawan (tea bowl) by Shimizu Keiko. The vessel resplends in the immaculate glaze that characterizes the legendary beauty of white Hagi tea bowls. The silky veil leaves the clay bare at the kodai (foot) in a sensuous movement that is remindful of the feminine form and profound symbolism of such chalices. Shimizu Keiko is an expert at crafting white tea bowls. He was born in 1940 in Hagi and studied with legendary Living National treasure Miwa Kyusetsu XI. In 1983, he founded hi... Click for details

Exhibited Vase by Iwasaka Tadashi

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Vases Pre 2000: item #813330
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A large trumpeting vase by Iwasaka Tadashi enclosed in the original signed wooden box and exhibited at the 1992 Shinsaku TogeiTen (20th Exhibition of New Ceramic Works) pictured on page 276; catalog included.  It is titled simply Purple-Red Wide Mouth Vessel, but the combination of colors over the unpretentious form is nothing less than striking.  Vivid red underscores the rich lavender spray speckling the body.  The vase is 12-1/2 inches (32.5 cm) tall, 7 inches (17.5 cm) diameter at the mouth.... Click for details

Otto Vivika Heino Studio Art Pottery Bowl Facets Prunts

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery Pre 1990: item #813314

Magnificent studio art pottery bowl from Otto and Vivika Heino of California, likely dating to the 1980s. Finely thrown stoneware form, with cut facet and scribed exterior panels accented with applied prunts or tabs of clay and finished in an earth tone pallette of tans and browns. Size/Condition: Measures 4"x 6" (feels more voluminous in hand) and is in excellent, undamaged condition w/pads on the foot ring. Marked as seen in the photo, undated.