A JAPANESE BIZEN STONEWARE SENCHA POT, 19TH CENTURY.
An eccentric little hand-formed stoneware teapot, the lis surmounted with a simple figure depicting Daruma. On the body can be found two further depictions of Daruma. The base has two stamps that are probably impossible to read, on the inside of the lid is a further mark. Bizen yaki is high-fired and unglazed stoneware, it relies on differing kiln conditions for ...click for details
A lantern shaped vase of typical pale stoneware, glazed inside and within the foot-rim with the typical finely crazed clear glaze associated with Satsuma and Kyoto wares. The thick glaze on the exterior has evacuated to form a marvelous abstract composition. Whether the potter relied upon the glaze to evacuate by first dressing the unfired vase with wax or perhaps the ...click for details
A large stoneware leaf-shaped dish decorated with leaves and fruits in over-glaze blue and green enamels on top of underglaze blue veins. Probably a kaiseki dish for the tea ceremony. Late Edo, 19th century, Kyoto.
9.1/16 inches (23 cm) long, 5.1/2 inches (14 cm) wide. There are t ...click for details
The body covered overall with a persimmon slip beneath the clear glaze, the neck dipped in a thick green glaze. The potter has engraved some fruit/vegetable forms through the slip before glazing, something I’ve never seen before. The orange and green go very well together. Within the foot-rim the body is clear glazed giving the more typical oatmeal colouring associated with Set ...click for details
