Ameyu glazed lobed serving bowl with rich mossy like copper effects in a trellis pattern
Stoneware, glaze and overglaze
8" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large iron and hakuji glazed chawan by Mashiko potter; Nishida Shinya. Boldly glazed chawan with vivid deep crimson and plum flashes running through the glaze all on a earth tone stoneware clay body.
This chawan is in perfect condition and measures 5.75" X 3" and comes complete with its signed box...
Robust high walled Toruko-ao Persian blue vellum teabowl over a suminagashi style neriage pattern
Porcelain and glaze
5.5" X 4.25"
Due to the vellum nature of this glaze, it is not recommended for daily use
Porcelain shallow teabowl with medieval green and temmoku glazes with a bloesem design on a graceful conical form
Porcelain and glazes
6.5" X 3"
Functional, decorative and food safe
A high walled teabowl form with thick wavy slip under my medieval green and temmoku glazes and a bloesem design making the surface appear like tortoise shell at points
Stoneware, slips and glazes
5" x 4.15"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Chinese influenced V-bowl form glazed in temmoku and medieval green glazes with a "bloesem" decoration
Stoneware, slip and glazes
9.5" X 2.85"
Functional, decorative and food safe
A jagged metallic shard has embedded into the lavender shaded side of this deep Shiro-Hagi Chawan by Miwa Kazuhiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The sheered metallic ring gleems softly gold in the light, a stark contrast against the moon-like glow of the body. The bowl is both sculptural and functional, the best combination. It measures 4 inches (10.5 cm) deep, 5 inches (12 cm) diameter and is in perfect condition...
Wide, open teabowl richly glazed in medieval green and Temmoku with a my
vibrant "bloesem" (blossom) design
Stoneware, slip and glazes
6.25" X 2.8"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large Karatsu influenced kutsu-gata style chawan with hakeme slip decoration under haiyu and temmoku glazes
Stoneware, slip and glazes
6" X 4.75" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large Karatsu influenced high walled chawan with paddled, tataki design around the body under a rich haiyu glaze
Stoneware and glazes
5.2" x 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
A very fine ash glazed Haiyu-Shino chawan by Heian Seijiro. This ash glazed, Haiyu, boxed chawan measures 5.4” X 3.2” and is in excellent condition. The surface of the piece is very luminescent and is wonderful crazed resembling kanyu (double refractory) style celadons
Oburi, robust Karatsu style kutsu-gata influenced chawan with "shono-kushime" combed slip under temmoku and haiyu glazes
Stoneware, slip and glazes
6" X 4.75" X 4"
Large Oribe style kutsu-gata chawan with mentori, facets around the form
Stoneware and glazes
5.65" x 3.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust Oribe style teabowl with kushime combed decoration over faceted planes around the bowl. The interior shows a wonderful texture created by the pooling glaze and intermingling of copper and iron in the glazes. The base of the bowl is my own temmoku glaze
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.6" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed teabowl with kushime combed slip decoration on faceted panels around the bowl
Stoneware, slip and glazes
4.7" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Faceted, mentori serving bowl with medieval green and temmoku glazes
Stoneware and glazes
8.5" X 3.8"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Lg. faceted mentori teabowl with temmoku and medieval green glazes. The surface of the glaze is streaked with iridescence
Stoneware and glazes
5.7" X 3.65"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large hakeme chawan with aka-e decoration around the bowl. In vivid red, a full moon style enso together with the expression; not one moon.
*** Please note, the actual color of the decoration is a vivid red, not the orange toned red shown in the pictures***
Stoneware, glaze and painted enamel
5.2" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
This bowl is not recommended for microwave use and should be hand washed
Rich and bold yuteki-temmoku chawan with phenomenal color and contrasting "partridge feather style oilspots. The exterior at the foot features a wonderful glaze roll that is caught forever in motion.
This bowl is in excellent condition,comes with an unsigned box, measures 5" X 3" and is unmarked. Though unmarked, this bowl is of very excellent quality and is most likely by Kimura Morikazu or Kamada Koji
Large Ido style Hagi chawan with original signed box by Hayashi Koyo. This chawan has a great ido influenced form and a wonderful hagi "landscape" with various tones of blush and spotting.
This chawan is in excellent condition and measures 5.5" X 3.6"
Serene yuteki temmoku conical chawan made in the Chinese taste, though Japanese. The chocolaty oil spots float on the darker iron glaze as if suspended, or frozen in motion. The clay is a a fine buff stoneware and the kodai, foot is well tooled. The chawan is signed, but has not been read, though it is a fine bowl...
High sided temmoku tabi-chawan (traveler's chawan) with old style gold decoration of "spirali e tagli"
Stoneware, glaze and gold luster
4.5" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large ameyu and haiyu, amber and ash glazed teabowl with a deep relief decoration known as the Shi-Tenno, Four Guardians.
Porcelain and glazes
5.75" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Haiyu ash and Temmoku glazed teabowl with combed (kushime) slip decoration. The droozy haiyu glaze has an iridescent appearance with moss like effects running down the surface
Porcelain, slip and glazes
5.5" X 4.2"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Vivid electric blue (bleu electrique) teabowl in lobed form with pedestal foot and vivid cobalt decoration running down from the lip
Porcelain and glazes
5.25" X 4.3"
Not intended for daily use
Elegant Hagi chawan with fine lip and kodai foot and a creamy and drippy rim of opaque glaze around the lip.
4.8" X 3.25"
Though marked, the seal is unread. This chawan was purchased at a store in Hagi. The original owner could not wait the extra day for the wood box, so it is presented here in a Hagi store gift box. It was thought that this chawan was made by Notomi Choun, but I will leave the detective work to the next owner.
Large, oburi chawan form with a deeply etched spirals repeat design under the 3-dimensional Ao glaze
Porcelain and glazes
4.25" X 5.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed teabowl with etched "Verses" design
Porcelain and glazes
5.15" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed teabowl with rozome influenced "grove" design
Stoneware, slips and glazes
5" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed porcelain chawan with a vivid intersecting commas design around the bowl
Porcelain and glazes
4.5" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Elegant porcelain teabowl glazed in a rich (and infinite) Ao glaze over an etched design representing zen artist Gibon Sengai's "Universe"
Porcelain and glazes
5.5" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Bamboo influenced teabowl form with a rich gosu blue over an Ame-yu glaze with a resisted design. The gosu is rich an lush especially in the sunlight
Stoneware and glazes
5.25" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Terra cotta teabowl with black and white slip that has been swiped around the body
Terra Cotta, slips and glaze
5.2" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Broad temmoku glazed teabowl with overall impressed design inspired by ancient Chinese bronzes.
Porcelain and glaze
5.25" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Richly glazed ko-zu style oribe chawan with "wandering" lip and tactile Shono pattern around the teabowl
Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze
4" X 5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Lyrical neriage bowl using white, iron and black porcelain clays in a Jovian Storms pattern
Porcelain and glaze
5.25" x 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust iron and white neriage teabowl with bold Jovian Storms pattern running through out
Porcelain and glaze
4.25" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Richly Ao glazed Wangata style teabowl with a Shono pattern around the bowl
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.25" X 3.6"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Momoyama influenced serving bowl(sukashi-bachi) with incised and pierced triangles around the circumference of the bowl in Ao and clear glazes
Stoneware and glazes
8.25" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust chawan, teabowl with Rozome grove pattern design around the bowl
Stoneware, slips and glazes
4.6" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Lg. energetic black & white slipware bowl with a raised slip "Verses" pattern. This bowl is made to hang on the wall if so desired
Terra cotta, slip and glaze
12" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Rich Oribe glazed faceted (mentori) travel teabowl (tabi-chawan) with box and made in spring 2008. In perfect condition with rich copper flow tea pool.
Higuchi is well known for his tactile tabi-chawan in Oribe and Shino glazes and is published in numerous magazines and publications.
4.15" X 3"
Pair of "Jovian Storms" neriage bowls in sand/white and grey/white mixtures
Porcelain and glaze
Each approx. 6.25" X 3.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust Oribe hakeme (hakame) chawan inspired by very natural stacked stones
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.5" X 4.25
Functional, decorative and food safe
A pair of tebori bowls in terra cotta with plum blossoms and fence pattern carved through out the interior
Terra Cotta, slip and glaze
6.7" X 3.4" each
Functional, decorative and food safe
Katakuchi, Spouted Bowl, Bamboo Ash Glaze. H.3.75"(9.5cm) X W.7.5"(19cm.) Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degree from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa...
Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, Ido-gata (well-shaped)by Sachiko Furuya. White matte glaze, H.3.375"(8.5cm) X Dia.6.375"(16.25cm), Footring Dia.2.5"(6.5cm.)
Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea...
Rozome style decorated chawan in the Sanyon design. The green overglaze is very reminiscent of Japanese Fujina style glazes and is very rich in person, the interior is a hakame style white slip
Stoneware, slip and glazes
4.60" X 4.35"
Functional, decorative and food safe
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 earthenware and a soft fritted glaze. Though it is food safe and functional, it is not intended for everyday use.
Oribe style chawan with hakeme (hakame) slip decoration under the lustrous rich green glaze
Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze
5" X 4.25"
Resist design chawan with "harmony" pattern with brushed slip interior. In the right light, a lustre can be seen on the surface of the glaze.
Stoneware, slips and glaze
4.75" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Modern play on the chawan, teabowl in the Oribe tradition with the Shono pattern (inspired by Hiroshige's famous print; Sudden Shower at Shono)
Stoneware with traditional Japanese Oribe glaze
5" X 4.25"
A large basin decorated with magnolias by Kondo Takahiro (b. 1958) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. A vibrant image perfectly executed from Takahiro who is a master of Tetsu-e. The bowl is 13-1/2 inches (34 cm) diameter, 4 inches (10 cm) tall and in perfect condition, dating circa 1995. Kondo Takahiro was born the grandson of Living National Treasure Kondo Yuzo...
A mischievous bowl covered in dense ash by the late master Furutani Michio (1946-2000) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The ash is so thick as to almost pacify the ragged clay surface; its resonant peaks still visible underneath where the clay is roughest. Inside dark charring scars the back of the bowl where flame licked the surface, and rivulets of crusty green vein the gray skin. The bowl is almost 9 inches (22 cm) diameter, over 3 inches (8 cm) to the rim...
A stunning white hagi glaze tinted with lavender cools on the sculpted natural from of this most expressive chawan by representative Hagi artist Kaneta Masanao enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is roughly 5 inches (13 cm) diameter, the same height and in perfect condition. Like Ryuichi, Masano likely needs no introduction, certainly one of Hagis most well known names, he has been displayed both nationally and internationally innumerable times...
Ido-style (deep well) matcha jawan (Tea Bowl) made by contemporary ceramic artist, Sachiko Furuya. Height: 3.5", Dia. 3.5".
Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degree from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa...