Wood-fired Jar by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.12"(30.5cm) X Dia.12.5"(32cm) x Mouth Dia.6.75"(17cm.) This pot has a wonderful surface texture from paddling, and the lugs on the shoulder are inspired by Japanese "chatsubo" (tea leaf storage jars) of the 16th century. See enlargements for multiple views, surface textures, and firing effects. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work...
Wood-fired Jar by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.9"(23cm) X Dia.11.25"(29cm) X Mouth Dia.5.875"(15cm.) A lustrous Shino glaze covers the top half and one side of the pot, while the lower portion displays the effects of wood-firing. The lugs on the shoulders are inspired by Japanese "chatsubo" (tea leaf storage jars) of the 16th century. Please see the enlargements for multiples views, surface textures, and effects from wood-firing...
Tea Pot by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.6"(15.25cm) X W.5"(12.75cm.) 3 cup (750ml) Capacity. This tea pot features a warm blue glaze over a body textured with chattermarked incisions. The interior is glazed in white. Pours well. Please see enlargements for ultiple views and stationary handle positioning. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work...
Artist signed wood box is included. 19.25 x 11.5 x 7 inches, 49 x 29 x 18 cm.
A pair of tebori bowls in terra cotta with plum blossoms and fence pattern carved through out the interior
Terra Cotta, slip and glaze
6.7" X 3.4" each
Functional, decorative and food safe
Compact tokkuri (sake bottle) in Jovian Storms neriage pattern. This piece can be used as a sake bottle, bud vase or just a decorative accent
Porcelain and glaze
6" X 4.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Artist signed wood box is included. 16 x 10.5 x 6.75 inches, 41 x 27 x 17 cm.
Ameyu, amber glazed saucer vase with copper overglaze in a lattice pattern that has run to resemble hanging moss
Stoneware, glaze and overglaze
11" X 5.5"
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 24 x 18 inches, 61 x 46 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 36 x 18.5 inches, 91 x 47 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 36 x 26 inches, 91 x 66 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 36 x 28.75 inches, 91 x 73 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Heavily textured Taiko, drum form vase covered in a complex Temmoku glaze with wonderful lustrous sheen
Stoneware and glaze
9.2" X 9.25" X 3.9"
Robust Oribe hakeme (hakame) chawan inspired by very natural stacked stones
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.5" X 4.25
Functional, decorative and food safe
Pair of "Jovian Storms" neriage bowls in sand/white and grey/white mixtures
Porcelain and glaze
Each approx. 6.25" X 3.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Hi-dasuki lines of red charring streak across the surface of this large Tokkuri Vase by Isezaki Mitsuru (b. 1934) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. A smooth even profusion of bubbles welter about the clay, adding a tactile texture to the elongated body. The vase is over 20 inches (51.5 cm) tall and in perfect condition. Mitsuru was born to a family of potters, his father Yozan and brother Jun both very important in Bizen pottery...
Ame and copper glaze stacked stones style covered jar, mizusashi with a rain pattern decorated around the jar's waist and moss green accents at the foot and top
Stoneware and glazes
7.5" X 7"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Aoki Ryuzan masterful banded oilspot, yuteki temmoku with a powerful green ban bisecting the form. Boxed, signed and in perfect condition. 3.5" X 3"
Large and robust Kohiki (powdered white slip) yunomi, teacup by master potter Ogawa Tetsuo. Boxed, marked and in perfect condition. 3.2" X 3.5"
Both Aoki and Ogawa are well known for these techniques and style and are in numerous publications.
Aoki Ryuzan Oilspot Yunomi Sold, thank you!
Ogawa Tetsuo Kohiki Yunomi $95
Rich Oribe glazed faceted (mentori) travel teabowl (tabi-chawan) with box and made in spring 2008. In perfect condition with rich copper flow tea pool.
Higuchi is well known for his tactile tabi-chawan in Oribe and Shino glazes and is published in numerous magazines and publications.
4.15" X 3"
Robust Oribe hakeme (hakame) vase with an exceedingly rich and traditional glaze with wonderful luster and depth
Stoneware, slip and Oribe glaze
8.25" X 5.75"
Lg. energetic black & white slipware bowl with a raised slip "Verses" pattern. This bowl is made to hang on the wall if so desired
Terra cotta, slip and glaze
12" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 12 x 12 inches, 30 x 30 cm.
Robust chawan, teabowl with Rozome grove pattern design around the bowl
Stoneware, slips and glazes
4.6" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
A huge museum quality pottery vase by Konishi Yohei (b.1941) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Tokoname Sen-Jomon Tsubo. The vase is 17-1/2 inches (45 cm) tall, roughly the same diameter and weighs 14 kg (30 lbs). It is in excellent condition, dating circa 1990. Yohei was born the son of Konishi Yusen in Tokoname city, graduating the Tokoname Ceramics institute in 1959...
A truly Massive chozara Oribe Platter by important potter Ando Hidetake (b. 1938) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Relying entirely on sculptural presentation, the interior is devoid of any decoration, the heavily sculpted basin simply coated with glassy-green oribe glaze. Deep grooves have been cut from the slab of clay, the edges torn and ragged with dollops of green dripping from the base...
Porcelain yunomi glazed in an Ao glaze, blue to green over the Jovian Storms neriage pattern
Porcelain and glazes
3.75" X 3.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Tear drop form tokkuri in the Jovian Storms pattern neriage and a rich and three dimensional Ao glaze which runs from steel blue-grey to green with blue highlights
Porcelain and glazes
7.75" X 5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Momoyama influenced serving bowl(sukashi-bachi) with incised and pierced triangles around the circumference of the bowl in Ao and clear glazes
Stoneware and glazes
8.25" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Richly Ao glazed Wangata style teabowl with a Shono pattern around the bowl
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.25" X 3.6"
Functional, decorative and food safe
A very large (oburi) and powerful Shino chawan by Miyamura Yoshinobu very reminiscent of Hayashi Shotaro's works. Thick splashes of pure white Shino glaze punctuate the rusty red Aka-Shino glaze which covers the entire teabowl.
This chawan measures 5.4" X 4" and is in perfect condition and comes with it's signed box.
An excellent example of the great works being made today based on Momoyama era Mino-yaki. Miyamura's works are show cased in numerous Japanese exhibitions, catalogues a...
A very serene Yuteki temmoku chawan by the famous Taniguchi Ryozo. Taniguchi, along with Miura Shurei, Kimura Moriyasu and Morikazu and Kamada Koji are famous proponents of the "oilspot" field.
This chawan is an excellent example of Taniguchi's work and masterful control of his glazes. He was a master of glaze technology and perfect forms.
This chawan measures 5.2" X 2.8" and is in perfect condition and comes complete with it's signed box.
Taniguchi Ryozo has had numerous one-...
Mashiko-ware yunomi (tea cup),new. This is a kata (mold) made yunomi, refered to in the local Mashiko dialect as a "mambo" yunomi. It has been a standard production item in Mashiko for many years. This cup features an "ame" (yellow - wheat gluten) glaze with an open medallion featuring a blue brushworked "sasa" bamboo leaf pattern. Volume = 6 oz/180ml. H.3.125"(8cm) X Dia.3.125"(8cm.) The town of Mashiko is located about 70 northwest of Tokyo, in Tochigi Prefecture. Although there is evidence of...
Ao glazed neriage (contrasting clays) mizusashi, complete with custom lacquer lid. A great piece for use or as a statement
Porcelain and glazes
5.5" X 5.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Two tone, iron and black neriage porcelain stem style yunomi
Porcelains and glaze
3.65" X 3.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust iron and white neriage teabowl with bold Jovian Storms pattern running through out
Porcelain and glaze
4.25" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Great set of books on modern Japanese studio pottery; GENDAI CHATO TAIKAN. Six volumes, each in slipcase, measuring 12" X 8.75", fully illustrated with color photographs and an appendix in each volume with artist biography, signature and seal.
Volume One; Mino, Shino, Oribe, Seto
Volume Two; Hagi, Karatsu, Arita, Agano Takatori
Volume Three; Bizen, Shigaraki, Iga, Tokoname
Volume Four; Tokyo, Kutani
Volume Five; Raku, Ohi, Other Kilns
Volume Six; Tokyo, Kutani...
Hakeme (hakame) decorated cap jar with rich Ao glaze. This form was inspired by a Japanese chambara film with a silhouetted "ronin" in rain hat and cape with folded arms standing as a solitary figure in the rain.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
10.5" X 6.25"
Lyrical neriage bowl using white, iron and black porcelain clays in a Jovian Storms pattern
Porcelain and glaze
5.25" x 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
This robust and modernist Haku-yu ( white ash) glazed mizusashi is by Kakurezaki Ryuichi protégé; Ishii Takahiro. This mizusashi is a creative statement to say the least and measures 10.5” X 9.75” X 6” and comes complete with the original signed box. Note the idiosyncratic and creative calligraphy! This piece is in excellent condition, excepting the lid which was repaired with gold lacquer!
Ishii studied uder the tutelage of the reknown Bizen master, Kakurezaki Ryuichi. He has ha...
This elegant form vase is by porcelain master; Omori Shinobu. This vase measures 10.65” X 4” and is in excellent condition. The work of Omori Shinobu (1889-1962) is rare and even more so as this large vase comes complete with signed box and original personal bio. Omori, known for revitalizing the studio movement from his home in northern Japan, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, founded Hokuto-yaki (Northern Star Pottery) and even to this day a large pottery festival is held in his honor. His work is in many...
A large sculpted image of the goddess of mercy Kannon cut from a solid slab of Iga clay by artist Kishimoto Kennin. The image is 12-1/2 inches (31.5 cm) tall and in perfect condition. The artists mark is engraved into the base of the back; there is no box. This artist has been working with clay since the 1950s, devouring styles along the way. Seto, Oribe, Iga and Celadon, all very different approaches which he masters one at a time, extending his unique view of the arts to new realms, and mov...
Ao glazed tea ceremony set (Kaigu)including a matched teabowl all in the Jovian Storms neriage pattern. Mizusashi complete with custom lacquer lid
Porcelain and glazes
Mizusashi 7.25" X 5.5"
Kensui 5.5" X 3.2"
Shakutate 6.8" X 3.45"
Futaoki 3" X 2.4"
Chawan 5" X 4"
Exceptional teadust style temmoku chawan by noted temmoku specialist, Kimura Moriyasu. This chawan is a very potent piece in excellent and unused condition and measures 4.75" X 2.65". This chawan comes with a wood storage box, though unsigned, it is guaranteed to be the work of Kimura Moriyasu.
Kimura Moriyasu is part of a family of glaze specialists which includes his brothers, Kimura Morikazu and Morinobu.
I will include a jpeg from a recent exhibition of Kimura Moriyasu's work whi...
Two volumes of the GENDAI NIHON(no)TOGEI IYE SAKUHIN books. Volume #1 and #2 of a three volume set, measuring 10.5" X 8.5" and fully illustrated in color and with a biography, signature and address/phone number of each artist. Great array of mizusashi, chawan, tsubo, etc.
These volumes cover many great and famous potters, including Ningen Kokuho, as well as Bizen, Hagi, Karatsu, Iro-e, Raku and many others.
Shipping is $5 each.
Richly glazed ko-zu style oribe chawan with "wandering" lip and tactile Shono pattern around the teabowl
Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze
4" X 5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Broad temmoku glazed teabowl with overall impressed design inspired by ancient Chinese bronzes.
Porcelain and glaze
5.25" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Terra cotta teabowl with black and white slip that has been swiped around the body
Terra Cotta, slips and glaze
5.2" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Group of six contemporary Japanese pottery videos, each in excellent condition and running just under an hour.
The videos showcase, Ningen Kokuho and other master craftmen from Bizem, Mino, Mashiko, Karatsu and painted porcelain works.The videos show 360 degree views of some of the potters works, as well as the potters studios, kilns and making pottery chawan, mizusashi, tsubo, etc.
The videos included showcase;
Kato Takuo
Fujiware Yu
Nakazato Taroemon
Nakazato ...
A very striking incised and wood fired vase by veteran omnibus potter; Imai Masayuki. This naturally glazed vase, hanaire, measures 9.25” X 3.75” and is in excellent condition with signed box. The surface of the vase is incised on either side with a sprig, or bouquet of flowers and is dusted by ash from the wood firing. Imai is a veteran potter, working in a wide variety of techniques and has been shown in numerous exhibitions and his work collected by museums and large collections around th...
This elegant Japanese seihakuji vase with peach bloom, shinsha accent, is by studio pottery master; Morino Kako. This vase measures 8.8” X 3.25” and is in excellent condition with original signed box. The contemplative decoration of this hanaire is boldly handled by an adept master of glazing and pottery form. Morino’s works are in numerous collections, museums and a wide variety of publications as well. Morino Kako is also famous as the father and illustrious teacher of Morino Hiroaki Ta...
Rozome style covered jar with the repeated resist "harmony" design. The green overglaze is very reminiscent of Japanese Fujina, as well as medieval galena glazes style glazes and is very rich in person and lead free.
This covered jar comes with two different styled lids, each one presenting an entirely unique view and perspective of the piece
Stoneware, slips and glazes
9.75" X 7.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe!
Bamboo influenced teabowl form with a rich gosu blue over an Ame-yu glaze with a resisted design. The gosu is rich an lush especially in the sunlight
Stoneware and glazes
5.25" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ceramic Sculpture by Cha Wa Sook. 18h x 16w x 4d inches, 46h x 40.5w x 25.5 cm.
Porcelain Cube Tower Vase in the signature geometric style of Korean contemporary ceramic artist, Lee Min Kyu. The body subtly tapers at the top and bottom. This vase makes a great set when combined with the Lee Min Kyu Porcelain Bowl (Stock #0388), as seen in the last photo here. Height: 15.5 inches, 39 cm; Circumference: 18 inches, 45.5 cm.
Porcelain Cube Bowl in the signature geometric style of Korean contemporary ceramic artist, Lee Min Kyu. The sides of the bowl seem to rise up straight, yet they flare outward ever so slightly. This bowl makes a great set when combined with the Lee Min Kyu Porcelain Vase (Stock #0387), as seen in the last photo here. Width: 9.5 inches, 24 cm; Height: 4.5 inches, 11.25 cm.
Elegant porcelain teabowl glazed in a rich (and infinite) Ao glaze over an etched design representing zen artist Gibon Sengai's "Universe"
Porcelain and glazes
5.5" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
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