Waisted style yunomi glazed in a rich Oribe style glaze; the left yunomi with impressed designs around and the right yunomi with underglaze "walking spirals" designs

Stoneware, slips and glazes

Each approximately 4.25" X 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

This sake cup is made as a miniature of red raku chawan made by Honami Koetsu in 17th century. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkIc18gBIkk Size: 6.7cm(D)5.3cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

Set of Four Wood-Fired Cups by Kim Young Mi. Dimensions of the largest cup: 6 inches wide x 3 inches high, (15cm wide x 7.5 cm high).

Contemporary Tea Cup by Master Takeuchi Shingo A fine tea cup of sculptural shape with inlaid polychrome geometric patterns. H 9 x 8,5 cm ca. Signed at the bottom; artist’s information paper follow. Condition: Perfect.  Takeuchi Shingo was born in 1955 in Seto. Until 1979 studied at the Aichi Prefectural Ceramics Research Facility and than with one of the great master potter, Kato Shuntei II. In 1982 establishing his own kiln in Seto...

Not to be confused with the Olympic medalist, this Tomita Hiroyuki (b. 1977) is a talented potter pushing the bounds of an otherwise conservative field where many ceramic forms are carried forward for centuries and sometimes millennia. Beginning his artistic endeavors in the field of metal casting, he soon met and became a student to Ijuin Mariko who introduced him to the world of ceramics...

Yunomi, Tea Cup, Porcelain with underglaze blue painting (uroko-mon, fish scale pattern,) by Kathy Lusher; Seattle, WA. H.3"(7.5cm) x Dia.3"(7.5cm) Volume=200ml(6.75 oz.) Kathy Lusher makes functional ceramics of an exceptional quality. The porcelain bodies and blue-green tinge to her hand-mixed glaze recipes create the ideal background to view the color of Japanese green tea...

Dohei Fujinoki is one of the most popular artist in contemporary KARATSU pottery scene. Initially he aimed a western painter and then,when he met an old KARATSU pottery piece he had been fascinated. He has studied at Karatsu and also MIno. And while, he has studied in tea ceremony. His repertoires are goods for tea ceremony, sake cup, and tableware for Japanese cuisine. This piece is a brand new work created with chosen-karatsu (black&white)glaze as sake cup. His sake cup is very popu...

Dohei Fujinoki is one of the most popular artist in contemporary KARATSU pottery scene. Initially he aimed a western painter and then,when he met an old KARATSU pottery piece he had been fascinated. He has studied at Karatsu and also MIno. And while, he has studied in tea ceremony. His repertoires are goods for tea ceremony, sake cup, and tableware for Japanese cuisine. This piece is a brand new work created with white porcelain ashed in kiln as sake cup.His sake cup is very popular. ...

Sadamitsu Sugiomoto has made cups with 5types of glaze, they would be used for several purposes. This is made with "oribe" copper and iron glaze . size: 9.5cm(D) 8.0cm(H) Accessary: none / if the wooden box signed by artist would be required, extra cost is needed, please inquire.

Copper glaze makes red with deducing situation and makes green with oxidation. Accessary: none Size:9.1cm(D) 5.6cm(H)

This piece is covered natural ash glaze, made by Junri Hamada who is well known as an expert potter in Mino pottery area where many traditional potteries has been made from 15th century. Size: 6.3cm(D)/5.0cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

Fine quality Ohi Ware chawan, tea bowl, Macha bowl by Yoshio Iwamura (1925-1987). Raku ware with mottled bright green and bluish glazes which remind of seaweed. It comes with the original, signed and inscribed wooden box; bowl with impressed seal Ohi. H 8 x 12 cm. Perfect condition. -------Yoshio Iwamura studied under Izukura Juro in Kaga. Later founded the Oyabu kiln in Ohi village, Ishikawa prefecture. Member of the Asia Art Society and the Kaga Art Association...

Celadon tea cup with corded patterns glazed in the Jômon zogan style made by Tatsuzô Shimaoka (1919-2007, Mingei school). Developed by himself, this style is inspired by ancient processes such as the Jômon string-printing technique (ca. 13,000 – 800/300 B.C.) and the Korean process of the Joseon period (1392-1897) of adding white slip with decorative indentations...

Tea Cup, Yunomi. Shino Glaze which has pooled into a Blue Circle on the face of the cup, and Kaki glaze Interior and Rim. John Miller; Portland, OR. H. 3.0"(7.75cm) x Dia. 3.0"(7.75cm.) Vol. 6.75oz (200cc.) John Salgir Miller was born in Elmira, NY, in 1974 and earned his BFA in ceramics and illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has been inspired the mingei aesthetic and by the work of Shoji Hamada since he began studying ceramics in high school...

2 Yunomi, Tea Cups; by Isamu Tagami of Hinata Kiln, Mashiko. Kaki glaze with red, green & yellow overglaze enamels in "ichimatsu" checkerboard pattern. White glaze interior. H.3..375"(8.5cm) x Dia.3.25"(8.25c.) Volume=10oz(300cc.) Tagami Isamu was born in 1947 in Mooka, a village neighboring to Mashiko. He married into the Sudo family and apprenticed under Sudo Takeo...

The light-grey glazed interior of this piece makes an inviting backdrop for a smooth cup of saké. The exterior by contrast is matte with a slightly coarse texture making it easy to hold in the hand. Overall it has a decidedly modern feel to it however the techniques used to produce this attractive guinomi go back many generations...

Shinogi (faceted) Soba Choko (Noodle dipping sauce cup) or Tea Cup, with Yellow slip, by Hanako Nakazato; Union, Maine and Karatsu, Japan. H. 2.625"(6.5cm) x Dia. 3.75"(9.5cm.) Hanako Nakazato is a 14th generation potter from Japan...

Yunomi, Tea Cup, by John Miller; Portland, OR. Tenmoku & Nuka glazes. H.3.375"(8cm) x Dia.3"(7.5cm.) Volume = 8oz(240cc.) John Salgir Miller was born in Elmira, NY, in 1974 and earned his BFA in ceramics and illiustration from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has been inspired the mingei aesthetic and by the work of Shoji Hamada since he began studying ceramics in high school. While at Mass Art studying under Ben Ryterband (who spent time studying pottery in Japan,) he had the ...