Sometsuke Plate by Kondo Yuzo
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Pre 1970 item# 928031
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With the feel of an ink landscape painting, this porcelain sometsuke--underglaze cobalt blue--plate was by by the first Japanese ceramic artist to be named a Living National Treasure for sometsuke in 1977, Kondo Yuzo(1902-1985). The Kondo Yuzo Museum is located in Kyoto and can be viewed here:
kondo-kyoto.com/yuzo/index.html
This plate is quite thick and shows the various shades of blue that Kondo was famed for, as well, of course, for his brushwork. In perfect condition with a signed box, 3cm ...click for details
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Iga Vase by Atarashi Kanji
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Pre 1990 item# 926467
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Atarashi Kanji (b.1944) is an Iga veteran who has been firing his anagama since 1975. His works are usually very powerful--like Tsujimura and Fujioka--and this triangular vase is a fine testament to that. It is meant to be used on its side, yet also looks quite nice standing. The green ash was applied and drips down over all sides nicely contrasting with the warm textured rusty orange 'clay flavor.' In perfect condition with a signed box--the box is a bit old and soiled--dating back abou ...click for details
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White-Black Jar by Yamada Hikaru
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Pre 1970 item# 923769
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Yamada Hikaru (1924-2001) was a founding member of the extremely influential avant-garde ceramic group Sodeisha along with Yagi Kazuo and Suzuki Osamu in the late 1940s. They brought about a sea change in Japanese ceramics, and it is not an understatement to say that many contemporary potters have been influenced in one way or another by the Sodeisha group. In their latter years the members also took to making functional wares. Here is a Yamada action-painting-like glazed white jar that captures ...click for details
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White 'Bird' Jar by Fujihira Shin
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Pre 1980 item# 920453
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Here is a fine deeply incised 'bird' jar with white slip by the great Kyoto ceramic artist Fujihira Shin(b.1922); you can read a Japan Times on him in this link: www.e-yakimono.net/html/fujihira-shin-04-jt.html
The base on this jar is black with a textured stitch pattern; all in all a classic Fujihira piece--and the first jar form in this style we'd handled--in perfect condition with a signed box, 20cm.tallx19cm, stamped on base, dating to the 1970s.
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Shigaraki Tokkuri by Furutani Michio
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Pre 2000 item# 919312
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A few years before he left us, I wrote this column about Furutani Michio (1946-2000) for a Japan Times article: e-yakimono.net/html/furutani-michio.html Furutani was a superb potter and a fine person as well； he is sadly missed, yet his son Kazuya carries on in the Furutani way. This Michio tokkuri has his refined and elegant form, super-superb firing and classic Shigaraki characteristics; Furutani as such placed it in a very high-quality signed box. In perfect condition, standing 14.5cm. ...click for details
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