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Wan shape with a small foot and no Kagami (mirror - tea pool) inside.
The light iron bearing clay is decorated in the style of a Korean Miji-Hakaeme bowls: inside and the upper three quarters on the outside covered with a whitish Engobe over which a transparent ash glaze was applied, just sparing the inner part of the foot.
The Uchigaso kiln was the second of the Takatori kilns established by Korean potters, it was active between 1614 and 1624.
The bowl was ex...
This very unusual Kyoto ware chawan is decorated in underglaze blue on a buff stoneware body.
The motifs are very odd and present mysterious pictures a poetic calligraphy.
Inside are 5 spur marks indicating that these bowls were stacked inside each other in the kiln. A previous owner has obviously been very attached to the bowl as it has several fine "kintsugi" gold lacquer repairs.
The Teabowl was made in Edo Period at the end of the 18th. century...
Today we like to offer you a very old Yuzamashi from the Edo period.
The yuzamashi is used to allow the boiled water to cool to the proper temperature before mixing with the matcha.
It is hand molded in the shape of lotus leaf.
No repairs, only natural inborn kiln cracks.
Size: 2,5'' height - 4,11'' width.
Shipping includedHeavily distorted shoe shaped (kutsu) Chawan from the early 17th century with a strongly flaring mouth made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay. The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potters knife in its lower part and covered with a very deep black iron oxide glaze inside and outside.
Two 'windows' on two sides have been left unglazed...
We kindly like to offer you a very unique tea bowl, made around 1800. Very sophisticated Karatsu Chawan, perfect in form and shape.
It presents a real wabi sabi aura with its fantastic lacquer-silver repair and its antique Japanese characters on. The 1st one seem to be Sakura (Cherry), and the 2nd probably Umi (ocean), but they are hard to read.
Size: 10 cm height x 10,5 cm in diameter.
Shipping includedSatsuma hibi-yaki tea bowl from the late Edo, early Meiji Period with its antique wood box.
The bowl has a narrow meshed net of fine cracks and a tasteful gold lacquer. Great work.
Size: 7,6 cm height x 12 cm diameter.
Shipping includedAn unusual Seto Tea Bowl, shaped like a flower in the upper area, with stunning glaze and a wonderful foot ring, made around 100 years ago during the Taisho Period (1912-1926).
It is in great condition with no chips or cracks - ready to use for the tea ceremony.
Ceramics produced in Seto City are known as Setomono (Seto ware), which has become a generic word for ceramics not only in Japan but also world-wide...
Wonderful Shigaraki Hira Chawan with artistic and shiny glaze, made around the end of the 19th century. No cracks or repairs. A real aesthetic chawan.
The original wood box and shipping are included.
Size: 4,9 cm height x 16,6 (max) in diameter.Up for sale is this wonderfully textured 19th century Japanese cast iron tea kettle made by noted Kyoto-school tetsubin craftsman Kibundo ( 1812-1892 ).
It is cast in high relief with the image of a landscape and plants.
This fine kettle bears the body-mark “Kibundo zo” and a remnant of the square seal mark of Kibundo on the bottom.
The quality of the relief casting is superb...
This is pure antique Edo: Wan-shaped tea bowl made of dark, iron oxide bearing, sandy Karatsu clay. The thinly thrown body is covered with the typical white, feldspatic Shino type glaze. It differs from the Mino Shino glaze by being glossier due to a higher ash content.
Under the glaze a line was applied in iron oxide resembling the skin of a whale (kawakujira). Just the foot ring and its immediate surrounding was left unglazed. The glaze has a beautiful fine crazing...