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
Robust thrown teabowl with thick fluted slip under a richer Ao glaze
Porcelain, slip and glazes
5.2" x 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
When the founder of the Urasenke style of tea ceremony, Senso Soshitsu (1622 -1697) was invited to Kanazawa as the lord of the tea ceremony for the powerful Kaga lords in 1666, the first Chozaemon came with him and established Ohi-yaki ware in Kanazawa. Chozaemon had been the chief apprentice for the Raku family in Kyoto and took with him many of the principles and ideas associated with Raku-ware...
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...
Large, ovoid tsubo, jar with kushime combing under haiyu and temmoku glazes. It is larger than the dimensions imply.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
12.25" X 8.5"
Wood-fired Tokkuri, Sake Decanter, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Natural Ash Glaze. H. 6.75"(17.25cm) x Dia. 4.25"(11cm.) Shell wadding remains on body.
John Benn studied with F. Carleton Ball and Ken Stevens at the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and with Howard Shapiro and Sandra Simon in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, he built his first wood kiln...
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"
Tokkuri (Sake Decanter) or Kabin (Vase) bu John Miller; Portland, OR. Temmoku & Nuka glazes, Iron Slip. H.5.25"(13.25cm) x Dia.3.375"(8.5cm.)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...
Lg. tsubo, jar with wide flared lip glazed in medieval green and temmoku glazes over a tataki, paddled grid design around the shoulder
Stoneware and glazes
10.25" X 8.25"
Lugged mizusashi or covered jar form with temmoku and tetsu glaze giving it a karatsu or Tamba style appearance.
Stoneware and glazes
8" x 8"
Functional, decorative and food safe
His and hers, meoto yunomi set with stamped designs under a rich temmoku glaze
Stoneware and glaze
max. 4.5" x 3.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe
TWO LEFT! Signed American original framed mini oil on canvas landscape paintings by this self learned painter:
A) Cove Ogunquit Maine - Marginal Way -beach rocks - marine image 5x7"; also knife painted as oil #1183898 is 144 Each
B) SOLD - Enchanted Woodlands with rushing water image 5x7";
C) SOLD. Mirage with a southwestern mood and palette 5x7";
D) Birches By The Lake image 3.5 X 5" is $99...
An organic sake cup on stand in pastel yellow by Yamaguchi Michi enclosed in the orignalsl signed wooden box titled Shuhai. It is roughly 6 cm (2-1/2 inches) diameter and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Yamaguchi Michie was born in Aichi prefecture in 1964, and came to pottery at the age of 35, opening her studio in Nagoya in 2003. She first exhibited with the Nitten National Art Exhibition in 2008...
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 piece was fired in "Anagama" small kiln with red pine fire woods for 10 days and 2 times. Ancient Shigaraki works was made of clay that was consisted weathered granite, it has very high fire resistance, 1300 Celsius degrees. Ashes of red pine tree turned to green glass ,it is called "bi-doro" at high temperature, and fierce fire made spectacle scene on the surface. Sugimoto is famous for not only remaking old Shigaraki, Iga pieces but also an authority in tea ceremony pottery ware...
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
Double gourd form tokkuri, bottle with rich temmoku and tetsu-yu glazes. The foot is glazed and the remains of wad impressions are present on the foot, but smooth to the touch.
Stoneware and glazes
7.25" x 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Caribbean-Blue glass fills this crusty earthen bowl by Ogawa Machiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Saiyu Bachi. It is roughly 27cm (11 inches) diameter, 10 cm (4 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Ogawa Machiko was born in Sapporo on the Northern Island of Hokkaido in 1946...