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"

A proud striated egg shaped orb floats above the square block forming the base of this sculpture by Matsumoto Hideo covered with enigmatic graffito. The object is 12-1/2 inches (31.5 cm) tall, 4 x 7 inches (11 x 18 cm) at the base, and is in excellent condition. This piece was purchased from an exhibition held in October, 1993, and a copy of a Newspaper article introducing the exhibition is enclosed with the piece. Hideo has been widely represented in Museum exhibitions throughout Japan...

Lim Moo Keun Korean Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture

Ao glazed teabowl with etched "Verses" design

Porcelain and glazes

5.15" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Enclosed in the original signed wooden box dated 1998. It is 16 x 10 x 12 inches (40 x 25 x 30 cm) and is in fine condition. Yanigahara Mutsuo (b.1934) was raised in Seto, and studied in Kyoto along with contemporary Morino Taimei with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship. His work is largely sculptural, and his choice of colors is his reflection on the decadence of Japanese society...

Guinomi, Sake Cup, Shino Glaze. John Miller; Portland, OR. H. 1.5" (3.75cm) x Dia. 2.375" (6cm.) Vol. 1.5oz (50cc.) 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...

Tea Cup, Yunomi, by Tagami Isamu of Hinata Kiln, Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. Kaki-yu ("persimmon" glaze) Rou-nuki (wax resist.) A repeated pattern of "8"s on this cup are a reference to the kanji character for 8 which is two lines that open wide slightly horizontally, an image that is open and receptive to good luck and symbolizes a bright future. H.3.375"(8.5cm) x Dia.3.375"(8.5cm.) Tagami Isamu was born in in 1947 in Mooka, a village neighboring to Mashiko...

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

Kang Jong Sook Korean Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture

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

Graceful porcelain teabowl with a Persian vellum glaze over an iron "intersection" design reminiscent of 50's atomic age pottery

Porcelain, slip and glazes

4.75" X 4"

Because of the nature of this vellum glaze, it is not intended for daily use

Pure quiet and calm is embodied in this white Hagi crystal by important female artist Miwa Hanako enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 10-1/2 inches (27 cm) tall 5-1/2 inches (14 cm) diameter and in excellent condition.
Miwa Hanako was born the grand daughter of Living National Treasure Miwa Kyusetsu XI, daughter of Kyusetsu XII who has sought to incorporate sculpture into the realm of traditional Hagi ware. She was raised surrounded in the world of Hagi-ware...

Yunomi, Tea Cup, by John Miller; Portland, OR. Ash glaze with hakeme slip. H.1.375"(3.25cm) x Dia.2.5"(6.5cm.) 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...

Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.

Like the charred remains of an open book deep fingerprints still visible from the opening hands within, this is a fine example of the work of Avante Garde Akiyama Yo enclosed in the original wooden box dating from 2013. It is 6-1/2 x 5 inches (16/5 x 13 cm) and is in excellent condition.
Akiyama Yo was born in Yamaguchi, home of Hagi pottery) in 1953, but went to Kyoto to study at the Kyoto Municipal University of Arts in 1976...

Each uniquely carved row of frets on this large textured koro is a variegated shade of raw clay by Matsuzaki Ken enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The piece measures7 inches (17 cm) square, 9 inches (22 cm) tall and is in fine condition.
Matsuzaki Ken was born in Tokyo in 1950, and grew up in that dynamic post war era where tradition and modernity were at constant loggerheads...

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...

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