Catalog (558)

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"

Sleek yunomi with medieval green and temmoku glaze over a hakeme slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

3.25" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Wide, open teabowl richly glazed in medieval green and Temmoku with a my vibrant "bloesem" (blossom) design

Stoneware, slip and glazes

6.25" X 2.8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Tall jug or vase form with medieval green glaze over rozome style design of spirali e tagli

Stoneware, slips and glazes

14" X 5.25"

Broad teabowl with temmoku and haiyu glazes over a kushime, combed surface

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.5" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Broad, rounded neriage chawan with Ao glaze over the suminagashi influenced pattern

Porcelain and glazes

5.6" X 4.35"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Chinese influenced V-bowl form glazed in temmoku and medieval green glazes with a "bloesem" decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

9.5" X 2.85"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Temmoku glazed cap jar with haiyu accents in the stamped decorations. There are two small areas on the foot ring where the glaze ran just a bit, see pictures

Stoneware and glazes

11.5" x 6.75

Tall bottle vase with medieval green glaze over a hakeme slip decoration and a temmoku glazed neck

Stoneware, slip and glazes

13" X 6.75"

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

A high walled teabowl form with thick wavy slip under my medieval green and temmoku glazes and a bloesem design making the surface appear like tortoise shell at points

Stoneware, slips and glazes

5" x 4.15"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Fine Bizen sake set by Prefectural Intangible Cultural Property of Okayama (Bizen); Isezaki Mitsuru (b. 1934). Mitsuru is the brother of Living National Treasure, Ningen Kokuho, Isezaki Jun and uncle of Isezaki Koichiro. He is widely exhibited and published and has won the prestigious Kaneshige Toyo Prize for his work.

This sake set is composed of two guinomi and a tokkuri, each prominently marked and in the original signed box. This set is in perfect, unused condition.

Guinomi measu...

Fine Shigaraki chawan by Kon Chiharu. Kon Chiharu apprenticed with the legendary master potter Tsuji Seimei and his work and firing is broadly reminescent of the masters work. Kon fires an anagama type kiln in Niigata but his works are decidedly Shigaraki in tradition and effect. His chawan start at 140,000 yen and can fetch up to 220,000 yen.

This chawan is enclosed in it's original box and is in excellent, unused condition. It measures about 4.5" X 3.6" and the ash banded top of the chaw...

Large, lobed form teabowl with temmoku and ash glazes

Stoneware and glazes

7" X 5.25" X 3.4"

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

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

Porcelain shallow teabowl with medieval green and temmoku glazes with a bloesem design on a graceful conical form

Porcelain and glazes

6.5" X 3"

Functional, decorative and food safe

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