Round vase with my ao glaze over black and white slip with a banded spirali pattern

Stoneware,slips and glazes

10.5" X 6"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Shallow kushime, combed teabowl with undulating way pattern in the slip beneath the medieval green Oribe-style glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

6.25" X 2.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Donated 2005 at a value of $250+ based on 2005 precious metal's prices. Hand wrought in an American studio this sterling metal sculpture necklace set for donation to Brigham Women's Hospital Center for Chest Disease. Although gifts are not signed with a name, this was stamped: HANDMADE STERLING. 2 0z Studio Red Garnet & White Pearl Jewelry Set. It was auctioned at their First Annual Dinner Dance & Silent Auction held @ the Boston Marriott Newton Hotel - 2345 Commonwealth Ave., Newton (Rte...

High walled teabowl with spirali e tagli decoration under my Ao glaze

Stoneware, slips and glazes

4.65" x 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

An unusual bulbous Guinomi and Tokkuri by Mori Toshiaki enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Shuki. Both are well balanced, standing perfectly on their own, despite the fact there is no foot, just a round bottom. The Guinomi is 7 cm (3 inches) diameter, 5 cm (2 inches) tall. The Tokkuri is 11.5 (4-1/2 inches) tall and both are in excellent condition, directly from the artist this summer...

Large, rounded teabowl with a bunrin-gata form with kushime combed decoration under my temmoku and haiyu glazes. The form is pushed ever so slightly ovoid to make for better drinking areas.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.75" x 5.5" x 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Classic hexagonal vase divided into section by incised lines and glazed over in a kairagi style haiyu onihada glaze pioneered by Mino veteran potter, Ando Moriyuki. This wood fired vase form is typical for the potter and by being separated into six unique panels, each display their own unique landscape tied in together like panels in a folding byobu screen...

A rusted and oxidized ceramic cube by Hashimoto Tomonari enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is roughly 30 cm (1 foot) cubed, and in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Hashimoto Tomonari was born the son of a sculptor and has felt comfortable with the processes of creation since childhood. He graduated with a masters from the Kanazawa University of Art in March 2017, then relocated to Shigaraki. A visit to his humble home studio is eye opening...

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. This piece has black (iron) glaze, it also could be used as a vase. Size: 11.0cm(B) 10.2cm (L) 14.0cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by potter

Ido glaze is difficult for using, especially about "kairagi" round the bottom, Sugimoto is one of the masters with Ido pieces in Japan. He makes guinomi sake cup as a miniature of chawan. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFPW5Dt3vn8 Size: 8.8cm(D) 5.1cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

Matcha Chawan, Tea Bowl, by Sachiko Furya; Honolulu, HI. Ido-gata (Well-Shaped,) Bamboo Ash and White Shino Glazes. H. 3.75"(9.5cm) x Dia. 6.25"(16cm,) Foot Ring 2.0" (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...

Hi walled tataki, paddled teabowl with haiyu and temmoku glazes. This was in a hot spot in the kiln and the glaze ran just a bit. please see the picture of the foot at 9 o'clock

Stoneware and glazes

5" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

A Fine modernist vase by master of the Japanese bronze tradition, world renowned Hasuda Shugoro, enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seido Tsubo, Shajiku (Pure Bronze Vase, Hub). The contemporary belted form is finished with matte olive patination. It is 15 cm (6 inches) diameter, 19 cm (just under 8 inches) tall and in excellent condition. The box is dated on the side an auspicious day in the 4th month of Heisei 8 (1996).
Hasuda Shugoro was born in Kanazawa City in 1915...

A beautiful and large Hakuji Seren Haruseki Tsubu-tsubu Chawan (white flashing stones spots tea bowl) decorated with an assortment of colors by shooting star artist Kawabata Kentaro.

It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box. For us its by far his best work and represents perfectly the artists wonderful eclectic style...

Gold luster decorated travelers style teabowls, tabi-chawan, each with the "grasses" motif running around the bowl

Temmoku teabowl (#4153/left) measures 4.25" X 4.25" and is stoneware with glaze

Porcelain glazed teabowl (#4154/right) measures 4.4" X 4.1" and is porcelain and glaze

Functional, decorative and food safe

Compact ovoid tabi-chawan style teabowl glazed in my tetsu0yu and temmoku glazes creating partridge feather style effects and finished with a hand cut foot to compliment the form.

Stoneware and glazes

5" X 4.6" x 3.6"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large and broad pillar form covered jar with hakeme decoration under a clear glaze and zen inspired splashes of rich Ao blue glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

12" X 8.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large, oburi teabowl with a rich and semi-translucent Temmoku glaze over a vivid masame pattern impressed design, a wonderfully tactile chawan

White Stoneware and Temmoku glaze

5.75" X 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

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. Size: 10.1cm(D)/12.6cm(H) Accessories: wooden boxes(signed by the artist)

Great looking silver overlay belt buckle by contemporary Hopi artist Anderson Koinva. He was taught the art of making jewelry and the famous Hopi overlay technique by his wife's father, the renowned Hopi jeweler Bernard Dawahoya. This belt buckle measures 2 3/8" by 1 3/8" and weighs 34 grams. Fine original condition and signed as shown. Wonderful design.

High walled, irregular form teabowl with tataki paddled decoration around the form under amber haiyu and temmoku glazes

Stoneware and glazes

5.25" X 3.9"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Faceted Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan; Mashiko-yako, by Isamu Tagami. Kaki glaze with red, green, & yellow overglaze enamels. Hakeme brush-marked interior. H.2.625"(6.75cm) x Dia.4.75"(12cm.) Tagami Isamu was born in 1947 in Mooka, a village neighboring to Mashiko. He married into the Sudo family and apprenticed under Sudo Takeo. He was originally trained as a Japanese chef and had his own restaurant before embarking on a career in pottery, giving him a unique perspective on functional wares...

Traditional Japanese art tends to be timeless and inspiring in form, however, occasionally lacking in diversity and innovation. That is why artists who can incorporate centuries of experiential knowledge and technique into producing new and interesting forms are oh so valued...

Lyrical Toruko-ao Persian style chawan with underglaze decoration of birds and flora around the outside of the bowl with a gold decorated lip and clear glazed interior. This chawan was made by Koizumi Zoho at his family kiln which he claims to go back over 650 years. It is a nice Persian bowl with a Kyoto-yaki style feel to it.

This chawan measures5.5" x 2.75" and comes complete with its original signed box...

Porcelain neriage chawan in a Jovian Storms style pattern with an "eye" design

Porcelain and glaze

4.75" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

A smokey landscape billows like clouds on this fabulous raw form by Atarashi Kanji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Guinomi. Coals cling to one side, opposite milky green and white while inside a blast of crackled green ice has formed on the wall among a haze of smoke. It is 7 cm (2-3/4 inches) diameter, 5.5 cm tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist. I highly recommend this with the Tokkuri following.
Atarashi Kanji was born in Osaka in 1944, and ...

Large oviod teabowl in Oribe style with medieval green glaze over hakeme slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.8" x 4.75" x 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Thick ash clings to the rough clay of this classical open flower vessel by Koyama Kiyoko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Shizen Yu Te-oke Hana-ire. It is 20 x 17.5 x 23.5 cm (8 x 7 x 9-1/4 inches) and in excellent condition.
Koyama Kiyoko was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1936. Following the second world war the family moved to Shiga prefecture, eventually settling in the pottery village of Shigaraki. She took a job as a ceramic painter's assistant at a young a...

Small pitcher (jug) with medieval green and temmoku glazes and an "imprint" pattern on either side

Stoneware and glazes

7.5" x 6.5" x 5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Katakuchi has been used as server for sake or other liquid in Japan for long term. This piece is made of kiseto glaze very popular, yellow glaze is made of tree ashes and green pattern is by oxide copper. Hamada is well as an expert in kiseto works. Size: 8.3cm(length)/13.8cm(width)/10.8cm (height) Accessary: none

Won Ju Seo's exhibition is featured in the December 3, 2015 New York Times, and she is featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Fiber Art Now, and in the recently-published McGraw-Hill fine arts textbook, Art Talk. The work offered here is Fragmented Memories by Won Ju Seo. This beautiful work of art was is in the recently-published McGraw-Hill fine arts textbook, Art Talk. Plexiglass box frame: 25 x 23.75 inches, 63.5 x 60.5 cm; Textile: 23 x 22 inches, 58.5 x 56 cm. Hand made with Korean silk, org...

A 30 cm (1 foot) square cube in oxidized lunar color by Hashimoto Tomonari enclosed in the original signed wooden box. By volume this seems in person much larger than it actually is. Hashimoto Tomonari was born the son of a sculptor and has felt comfortable with the processes of creation since childhood. He graduated with a masters from the Kanazawa University of Art in March 2017, then relocated to Shigaraki. A visit to his humble home studio is eye opening. Although he comes across as shy in...

High walled porcelain teabowl with "cogito" underglaze black and red decoration and sgraffito under a clear glaze

Porcelain, underglazes and clear glaze

4.7" x 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Size Height 14cm Diameter 30cm

In excellent condition Comes with signed wooden box

Yagi Akira, from Kyoto, inherits a rich legacy of ceramic innovation from his father, Yagi Kazuo, a co-founder of the Sodeisha. Akira's ceramic pieces blend sculpture with function, often featuring his signature blueish-white seihakuji glaze.
He won the Japan Ceramic Society award in 1998 and has showcased his work in solo exhibitions in Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka, and New York. His art is al...

An exquisite Mizusashi in white glaze over dark gray clay by Sakata Keizo titled Hagi Haku-yu Zundo Mizusashi. It features a black lacquered wooden lid, contrasting starkly with the white glaze, like a frozen dark lake in snow. The vessel is 20 cm (8 inches) diameter, 18.5 cm (7-1/2 inches) tall and in perfect condition.
Sakata Keizo (1949-2004) was born the son of the 13th generation Deika in Hagi city, and was raised among the kilns of the region. He graduated the Nihon Daigaku in 197...

This multi-color paper cut-out of lotus is 8 ½” wide and 11 ¾” long. It depicts lotus blossoms and leaves during summer time. It is designed and made by Pi-Ping Savage. The signature on the bottom right uses her Chinese name. The Chinese folk art of paper cutting, creating pictures by cutting out single sheets of paper, has been practiced for many centuries. As early as the T'ang Dynasty (618-917 A.D.) pictures of local deities or highly stylized designs were cut out and sold in mar...

This piece was grilled with burning red pine fire woods for 10days in "Anagama" kiln. Covered ashes make beautiful pattern. It could be used as small vase. Size 7.7cm(W) 12.8cm(H) Accessary wooden box with signature

Kuwata Takuro makes the most characteristic pottery we have ever seen, and when you look at this spectacular piece it is easy to understand why.

This is his Ki-Ji Kinsai Chawan which comes with his originally with his seal, calligraphy and fingerprint signed wooden box.

Takuro surely needs no introduction. He was born in 1981 in Hiroshima and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Kyoto Saga University in 2001. After that he started studying under Susumu Zaima in 20...

Viscous white glaze crawls and cracks on this round sake bottle by Shino Legend Hayashi Shotaro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 13.5 cm tall and in excellent condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b. 1947) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Mino ceramics. Although initially entering regular employment upon graduating high school, in 1967 he returned to Toki city to help his brother Kotaro. Very quickly within him was born the urge to create. He won the highest award at the ...

Robust Oribe teabowl with slip and roughly incised, sgraffito design circling the bowl.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5" x 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Size
Height 22cm
Width 24cm


In excellent condition
Comes with signed wooden box

Morinobu Kimura, born into a pottery family in Kyoto in 1932, became a respected potter known for his exceptional skill and dedication. He gained recognition at 26 when chosen for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition. Kimura's innovative use of ash glaze earned him praise, leading to honors as a guardian of intangible cultural heritage by Kyoto Prefecture. Throughout ...

The gift of this original signed American micro mini miniature watercolor painting by and signed: Mimi Dee, who is self taught, would bring precious memories to visitors of the Maine coast.
This watercolor is titled: "Bench on Marginal Way" and it was shown at a Reading Art Association Exhibit.

Image size: TINY 3/4" X 1 3/4"!
Framed: 5" X 6 1/2".
Subject: Family of three on the bench on "Marginal Way".
This is a recognizable and memorable landmark for thousands who hav...

Stoneware covered box form glazed in my Kuro-Oribe surface with Johnny Hart B.C. and Prometheus inspired finial.

Box measures approximately 17.5 x 13.5cm

Stoneware and glazes

Decorative, functional and food safe

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. His new challenging work, making raku style chawan with celadon glaze, Size: 14.3cm(D)/6.7cm(H) Accessories: wooden boxes(signed by the artist)

The artist who produced this piece, Wataru Motomura, prides himself in living a traditional life in the eastern hills of Kyoto—long known for its rich clay and idyllic pastoral lands. Though the form of this vessel appears innovative and modern, the techniques and materials used to produce it have been around for many hundreds of years. Taking inspiration from the varied pottery traditions of his native Hyogo, Motomura is also known to use clay and methods from the Shigaraki region and many of...

With a masterfully applied black Raku glaze and a noticeable aesthetic of austerity and stillness, this piece is what is refereed to in Japanese as an “utsushi” or what we might call in English a “tribute piece.” Such pieces are typically made by all Raku potters, regardless of the kiln and tradition, and seek to emulate famous works from the early masters over 400 years ago—in this case, a tea bowl created by the brother of the second Kichizaemon, Tanaka Somi, born sometim...

Low and wide chawan with temmoku and haiyu ash glaze over a kushime combed decoration. This bowl is very influenced by the famous Momoyama Shino chawan Mine(no)Momiji

Stoneware, slip and glazes

6.25" X 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Shino glaze dish with sgraffito decoration, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. White Shino glaze. H. 2.0"(5cm) x Dia. 6.25"(16cm.) 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. She has exhibited her...

A stunning iridescent Steven Lundberg blue pulled feather and gold aurene vase. Signed S. Lundberg and dated 2001, it is in perfect condition measuring about 7" tall.

Large teabowl with swiped slip decoration with three areas of diagonal interruptions in the design

Porcelain, slip and glazes

5.2" x 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

This amazing piece, fresh from the kiln in April, is titled Mio, perhaps a play on the artists name, this kanji character meaning water which has pooled and collected. When looking at this piece, all the glaze has run down the body, filling the scalloping exfoliation with pools of lapiz blue. It is 27 x 30 x 58 cm (11 x 12 x 23 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Due to size this will require special shipping consideration.
Yamaguchi Mio was born in Aichi prefecture in 1992, a...

Passion of Korea 3. Silk Bojagi Korean Textile Art by renowned textile artist Hae Hong Chang. Chang's acclaimed bojagi have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. The Korean Art and Antiques website is the only online venue for her fine work. Hae Hong Chang is a Korea Bojagi Forum Recommended Artist. 17.5 x 16 inches, 44 x 40 cm.

Traditional style jug or pitcher with deep rich temmoku glaze and impressed waffle designs as a repeated motif

Stoneware and glaze

11" X 6.8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

A spectacular work in the shape of a curved wall covered in a galaxy of color by Hashimoto Tomonari enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 51 x 16 x 29 cm (20 x 6 x 11-1/2 inches) and is in perfect condition, directly from the artist. Hashimoto Tomonari was born the son of a sculptor and has felt comfortable with the processes of creation since childhood. He graduated with a masters from the Kanazawa University of Art in March 2017, then relocated to Shigaraki. A visit to his humb...

Ao glazed albarello influenced cap jar with vertical kushime combing decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

10.25" X 6.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust waisted form teabowl with kushime slip decoration under my Ao glaze

Porcelain, slip and glazes

5.5" X 4.4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Tall covered jar with thick combed slip decoration under an Oribe style glaze with iron flows about the surface.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

13" x 6" max.

Perfect Shino Natsu tea bowl (Summer tea bowl) made by one of the most popular Japanese actors and artists, Kazuo Hayashi. He was born in 1945 and is affiliated with Theater Echo. He is also skilled in Buyō and pottery. Ceramics of him are rarely available.

It is in mint condition and comes with the originally signed and sealed wooden box of the artist.

Size: 7 cm height x 8,5 cm in diameter.

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Contemporary white porcelain jar by Lee Yong-soon (b.1957, Korea), with his unique interpretation for the ancient jars of the Joseon dynasty, approx. D 20.5 x H 18.5cm (8.07 x 7.28in). Besides, two more different size of his moon jars are listed at the same time, and each one is attached with his autograph certification (in Korean) with his own signature and seal.


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A truly one of a kind sculpture of three stacking pottery objects in oxidized color by rising star Hashimoto Tomonari. The only work like this the artist has yet produced, it is 82 cm (32 inches) tall and all in excellent condition, directly from the artist this year. We have many photos of the individual pieces from all angles if you would like to see them. Please inquire.
Hashimoto Tomonari was born the son of a sculptor and has felt comfortable with the processes of creation since chil...