Lustrous green Oribe glazed chawan over a combed "breaking waves" pattern highlighted with an underglaze wash of purple-brown
Stoneware, slip, wash and glaze
5.5" X 3.85"
Functional, decorative and food safe
This piece is a new work recently launched, it is called "madara" glaze made of ashes of rice straw. The condition of glaze is very calm and warm.
Please see on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgYgFQK-4tk
Size : 14.2cm(D) 7.9cm(H)
Accessary: double wooden box signed by artist
An assortment of sake cups by some of Japans most sought artists representing pottery traditions from throughout the country, Moriyama Kanjiro, Iguchi Daisuke, Ichino Masahiko and Yamada Hiroshi.
All forerunners in their genre and these bowls representing their most popular styles. We have carefully screened and selected each work as a masterpiece unto itself and feel very confident you will agree...
Rich ao glazed teabowl with an etched "grasses" pattern into the porcelain body and then glazed
Porcelain and glazes
4.65" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Though this piece appears quite old and nicely worn by time, it is in fact a very recent work from Sekizanjin kiln. Using a special organic process to “ferment” powdered ore used in the clay, they then fire the hand molded pieces under extreme heat to produce bowls they call “Chibori.” The Chibori bowl featured here is inspired by works of Chojiro—forbearer of the Raku line of potters and collaborator with legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu...
The great artist Choraku III made a lot of fantastic chawans - for me this is SURELY HIS BEST: a mysterious Aka Raku Chawan with Buddhist symbols in white slip, which are drawn on the outside of the bowl, slightly deformed and perfectly balanced, definitely one of a kind!
With every turn of the bowl, a new face is shown, offering many opportunities for contemplative experiences...
A true Mashiko chawan by greatest Shoji Hamada, enclosed in its signed wood box and an authentification of Shinsaku Hamada.
Hamada Shoji (1894 - 1978) was one of the founding fathers of the Studio Pottery movement, who came over to England with his friend, Bernard Leach, to start the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall back in 1920. Like Leach, Hamada did not come from a pottery background but had studied ceramics briefly in Tokyo...
A splendid Oribe chawan (oribe tea bowl) made by Suzuki Goro (b. 1941), one of the most recognized contemporary Japanese potters.
Oribe ware has been made in Japan since the end of the sixteenth century, under the guidance of Furuta Oribe (1544-1615), a feudal lord and one of the most illustrious students of tea master Sen-Rikyu (1522-1591)...
Thick white vitrifies over bottomless black, creating a stark sense of drama on this outstaniding work by world renowned potter Udagawa Hosei enclosed in the original signed wooden box complete with an exhibition pamphlet from Isetan Department Store advertising a similar work .
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The white glaze crawls and plays over the slightly blue tinged glaze, which covers the rough Hagi clay.
The raw red clay is visible beneath where the glaze has crawled away to allow a peek inside...
A beautiful example of modern Bizen-ware—with a thick feldspar glaze partially covering the clay body allowing the natural ash glaze underneath to show through in areas. This piece along with others by the same artist tend to push the bounds of what you usually see in Bizen pottery.
The craftsman who made this piece, Takahiro Ishii, was born in Tokyo, and, after studying ceramics for a number of years, he moved to Bizen to become a ceramics teacher and later opened his own kiln...
Shallow Oribe style wall bowl with alternating areas of mon (gate) designs and a rich lustrous Oribe glaze. The bowl is made so that it may hang if desired
Stoneware, slips and glazes
11.85" X 2.9"
Functional, decorative and food safe
This is everything we could hope for in a bowl by this esteemed artist, Kakurezaki Ryuichi enclosed in th original signed wooden box. The first photograph tells it all, with a superb, organic form displaying a hint of green ash on the rim over a burnished red bleeding into raw pale clay spattered with goma and matte reds with small inclusions peeking out through the clay surface. The wide base and low stance create a very powerful presence.
Size, D 12.2 x 13.8 cm H 11.1 cm (in...
A jagged metallic shard in gold has embedded into the snow-bank sides of this deep shiro Hagi Chawan by Miwa Kazuhiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shiroi Mau Wan (White Dancing Bowl). The sheered metallic ring gleems softly gold in the light, a stark contrast against the moon-like glow of the body...
Shjades of lavender dust the thick coating of white glaze which covers the rugged form of this spectacular large pair of sake cups by Kaneta Masanao enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Kurinuki is the style of digging the work out of the clay rather than forming the clay on a wheel and has been a signature of this artists work for more than two decades...
Sadamitsu Sugimoto, a great master of the ceramic art scene in Japan, was led by Tachibana Daiki the great Zen teacher and has been producing a lot of masterpieces through over 40 years .He has been studying the world of “wabi, sabi, and yugen” as his life's theme.
*Tachibana Daiki is well known that young Bill Clinton or Cap.Armstrong asked for teaching.
This piece was created in '89 for ideal as the great founder Raku Chojiro'work and not used.
He gave himself the name as "NAGOMI"to t...
A morphic vessel of rough outer form like a fossilized egg or bowl of coral covered from the rim within by slick blue, a quintessential work by Tanoue Shinya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kara-wan Ao (Empty Shell, Blue). It has a wide, rounded form which is surprisisngly pleasant to hold, and the smooth blue decorating the rim is pleasing to the lips. The shape allows for a very stable silhouette, which seems to anchor itself to whatever surface it rests upon...
Reishuuki, Cold Sake Decanter, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. Spouted Bowl with Braided Handle also suitable for flowers, food presentation. Gray glaze, decorated with applique clay loops. H. 4.75"(12cm) x Dia. 5.625"(14.5cm.) Width (including spout) = 7.0"(17.75cm.) 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...
Mint Oni-Hagi masterpiece chawan with notched foot by star potter Seigan Yamane. This extraordinary tea bowl is covered by wonderful different shades of white and light green glaze...
