Richly glazed cap jar with rozome ideogram style designs around the jar and on the lid. This glaze is very reminiscent of Old English or Fujina lead glazes without any lead!

Stoneware, slips and glazes

8" X 7"

Lidded storage jar with ameyu, amber glaze and a copper luster rain pattern

Stoneware and glazes

11" X 8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

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"...

Large Oribe glazed tsubo with hakeme slip decoration and a broad, flared lip.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

11.5" x 8.5"

Medieval influenced cap jar with a rich galena style glaze over a medallion repeat design. Though galena influenced, this is a lead free glaze!

Stoneware and glazes

8.5" X 6.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Wood-fire jar, tsubo, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Ash Glaze. H.9.5"(24cm) x Dia.9.5"(24cm.) Lug handles on shoulders in style of "chatsubo," tea leaf storage jar. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates...

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: 11.0cm(D)/13.2cm(H) Accessories: wooden boxes(signed by the artist)

This piece was grilled with burning red pine fire woods for 10days in "Anagama" kiln. Melted ashes turned beautiful green glass. Size 8.2cm(D) 8.0cm(H) Accessary wooden box with signature

25" x 31 1/4" Oil on Canvas

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 painted rabbit pattern with as sake cup. His sake cup is very popular. SIZE: 4.2...

Ceramic tokkuri - sake bottle - with sturdy body and cup mouth. Shino ware with dark body and wonderful free potting - one can feel spiral lines on the body left by fingers of the potter and see a beautiful spiral line on the bottom. Orange and gray Shino glaze with swirling lines, wonderful sense of energy to the piece. Made by American potter Robert Fornell (resided in Japan 1988-1996) marked with his seal on the foot. Great object in Japanese taste, in excellent condition...

Generous Oribe style covered jar with impressed decoration around the body of the pot. Please note, the lid was fired on a wad that was later ground off resulting in the area you see on the bottom of the lid, it is not sharp and smooth to the touch.

Stoneware and glazes

9.25" x 7.5"

23 1/4" x 29 1/4" Oil on Canvas

One time price drop on this mizusashi at the owners request.

Classic, robust Ko-Iga style mizusashi by veteran potter, Kojima Kenji. Clearly based on some Iga archetype this solid mizusashi was thrown and slightly manipulated to give the form a nice sense of gesture before adding thick and purposeful lugs and adding marks across the surface to further define the landscape of the piece...

Broad and full formed bottle vase with my partridge feather (yamatorige) glaze over temmoku

Stoneware and glazes

8" X 7"

Saffron glazed water jar, covered jar, mizusashi with combed, kushime decoration in slip under the glaze which has run to create long partridge feather tendrils around the base of the pot. There are three gold lacquer dot additions around the form.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

8" x 6.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Oribe style mizusashi, water jar with hakeme (hakame) slip decoration under the lustrous glaze

Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze

6.25" X 6.25"

A secret technique is used to induce the wide cracking which does not penetrate the sides of this Tsubo wrapped in fingers of natural ash glaze by Furutani Taketoshi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Shizen-yu Yabure Tsubo...

White slipped bottle vase with combed vertical design and splashed of Ao glaze on either side. This may be used as a larger tokkuri or as a vase

Stoneware, slip and glazes

10.5" X 5.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Oval combed slip covered serving piece with Ao glaze and red, yellow and green overglaze emamels. The foot was glazed and fired on wads just for the effect it presents.

Stoneware, slip, glaze and enamels

12.5" X 6.25" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

This sake bottle is a very rare piece among Sugimoto's works. Ordinary, shigaraki pieces are fired in the anagama fire woods kiln, however this pieces is carved and colored with pigment, And fired in the kiln with charcoal. The pattern is called "shikishi kasane" a pair of square piece of fancy papers. It's a happy theme. The white grains are feldspar included in shigaraki clay. Special price. Size:7.5cm(D) 19.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist

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.

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Artist: Sophie Su.

Watercolor on paper 2022,(25.5×36cm without frame)

This piece was grilled with burning red pine fire woods for 10days in "Anagama" kiln. Melted ashes turned beautiful green glass. Size 6.5cm(W) 4.5cm(H) Accessary wooden box with signature

Guinomi, Sake Cup, White Glaze with Hakeme-brushed Interior, Iron around Rim. John Miller; Portland, OR. H. 1.75" (4.5cm) x Dia. 2.875" (7.5cm.) Vol. 3oz (90cc.) 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...

This piece was grilled with burning red pine fire woods for 10days in "Anagama" kiln. Melted ashes turned beautiful green glass. Size 6.5cm(W) 4.5cm(H) Accessary wooden box with signature

Bizen ware has been made from 16th century for 500 years and well known as one of 6 old kilns in Japan. At the Bizen kilns, no artificial glaze is used and expressions are by just effects of burning fire woods. The effects are by flame and clay and by ashes...

27 1/4" x 31 1/4", Oil on Canvas. Alan Kessler Gallery is the exclusive representative for the paintings of Wendy Meng.

Ceramic tokkuri - sake bottle - with sturdy body and cup mouth. Shino ware with dark body and free potting - one can feel spiral lines on the body left by fingers of the potter and see a beautiful spiral line on the bottom. Orange and gray Shino glaze with swirling lines, wonderful sense of energy to the piece. Made by American potter Robert Fornell (resided in Japan 1988-1996) marked with his seal on the foot. Great object in Japanese taste, in excellent condition. Height 5 3/8 inches.

Robust majolica tin glazed teabowl with abstract bands of color with an alternating rain pattern in black over the bowl.

Terra cotta, glaze and overglazes

5.35" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Medieval green glazed hakeme slipware covered jar, or mizusashi with kamon diamonds at four points around the piece

Stoneware, slips and glazes

8.8" X 6.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Oribe glaze has been liked as traditional glaze since 16th century in Japan. It's made of copper, makes green in reducing atmosphere and red in oxidized air. This piece also has traditional pattern by iron glaze. It is also possibly used as a small vase, not only as a sake sever. Size: 8.7cm(D) 19.0cm(H) Accessary: none

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 former Arkansas Gov...

A set of five small dishes in the shape of an upturned roof tile covered in tri-colored glaze by Murakoshi Takuma enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shunju Kawara-zara. Each is roughly 14 x 12 x 5 cm (5-1/2 x 4-1/2 x 2 inches) and all are in excellent condition.
Murakoshi Takuma is one of those enigmas who simply lives to work with clay...

Paddled water jar with Oribe and iron ash glaze accents. The jar has a slight lean to it as a result of the paddling.

Stoneware and glazes

7" x 7.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

A set of large Abalone Shell Shaped bowls covered in ash glaze with liquid pools of jade green by Murakoshi Takuma enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hai-yu O-Awabi Bachi. This is one of his most popular forms, and we had to get to the kiln immediately after firing to garner a few sets. Perfect for winter food, Oden or even Niku-jaga. These are 19.5 x 15 x 8 cm (7-3/4 x 6 x 3 inches) and are in perfect condition, from his most recent firing...