All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Pre 2000 item #1356175 (stock #octoshark)
This sculpture was carved in 1999 by renowned sculptor Tim Lewis. Tim is an American Stone Carver whose work is represented in the permanent collection of the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the Smithsonian American Museum in Washington, D.C. His work is also included in George H...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1484049 (stock #24)
A tribute to classical literature and design, the zig-zagging eight bridges march through a wetland of blossoming iris on the black lacquer ground of this two panel screen by Okada Yuji. Lead, mother of pearl and Jewel beetle wing inlay on black lacquer with gold maki-e design. Each panel is 61.5 x 120 cm (24 x 47-1/4 inches) or roughly 120 cm (four feet) square. It is in excellent condition, directly from the Okada family.
Due to size the cost of shipping will be accrued separately...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1484000
To use the term Museum quality would be an understatement. This piece, I always had the impression, wat the artwork for which Okada Sensei was most proud. A dry lacquer base covered in layer upon layer of iro-urushi colored lacquer to which has been added hira-maki-e, taka-maki-e, toidashi-maki-e, inlays of mother of pearl, and the entire carved through revealing the layers of color beneath. It was created in 2002 and comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483913 (stock #29)
A strange phenomenon occurs when walking past this piece. From head on it appears to be highly textured gold veined with blue mother of pearl. Move a little and the Ke-uchi designs laid out on chevrons overlapping the gold design stand out strongly, move a little more and the brilliant red disc in center comes into view for the first time. This piece shows the true mastery of lacquer craft Okada Yuji possessed...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483156 (stock #31)
Creatures congregate among the fallen leaves and small grasses surrounding this incredible Kanshitsu (dry lacquer) box by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yafu (Field Wind). A plethora of techniques have been used to create this box. First the dry lacquer technique means perhaps a year in creating the egg-like shape, due to drying time of the many layers. It is covered in polished black lacquer, with leaves of gold maki-e riven with kirigane cut gold chips...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483920 (stock #27)
A Kanshitsu Jikiro (Dried Lacquer box) by Okada Yuji covered in dark lacquer decorated with Kanshitsu-ko (powdered dried lacquer) and gleaming strips of mother of pearl and polished suzu-ita metal over billowing clouds of mother of pearl enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seifu (Blue Wind). On top a ring of fine mother of pearl flakes studded with solid discs of hirame gold indicate the sun...
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #1356181 (stock #eagleonstand)
This sculpture was carved in 2005 by renowned sculptor Tim Lewis. Tim is an American Stone Carver whose work is represented in the permanent collection of the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the Smithsonian American Museum in Washington, D.C. His work is also included in George H...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Jars : Contemporary item #1463515 (stock #RS-39)
Gallery Rex
$11,540.00
This piece was fired in "Anagama" small kiln with red pine fire woods for 10 days and 2 times. Ancient Shigaraki works was made of clay that was consisted weathered granite, it has very high fire resistance, 1300 Celsius degrees. Ashes of red pine tree turned to green glass ,it is called "bi-doro" at high temperature, and fierce fire made spectacle scene on the surface. Sugimoto is famous for not only remaking old Shigaraki, Iga pieces but also an authority in tea ceremony pottery ware...
All Items : Artists : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 2000 item #1437190 (stock #850)
L'Enfant Gallery
$11,000.00
A beautiful large scale watercolor and gouache painting by artist Bruce Handiside Mitchell, 1908-1963 was a New York painter who would travel to Scotland to paint as well as New England. measuring 20 x 30“, frame size approximately 32”x43”…. Birth place: Tayport, Scotland Death place: Langhorne, PA Addresses: Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY; Milton, PA Profession: Painter, educator, lecturer, writer, teacher Studied: ASL, with Harry Wickey, Thomas Benton, George Grosz, G...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483118 (stock #26)
A Kanshitsu Jikiro (Dried Lacquer box) by Okada Yuji covered in dark lacquer decorated with Kanshitsu-ko (powdered dried lacquer) and gleaming strips of mother of pearl and polished suzu-ita metal over billowing clouds of mother of pearl enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seifu (Blue Wind). On top a ring of fine mother of pearl flakes studded with solid discs of hirame gold indicate the sun...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1443257 (stock #0491)
Momoyama Gallery
$9,990.00

Kuwata Takuro makes the most characteristic pottery we have ever seen, and when you look at this spectacular piece it is easy to understand why.

It has Tomo everything - artist's history, wrapping cloth, a silk pouch and a with his fingerprint signed wooden box.

Takuro surely needs no introduction. He was born in 1981 in Hiroshima and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Kyoto Saga University in 2001. After that he started studying under Susumu Zaima in 2002...

All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Pre 2000 item #1483256 (stock #17)
A unique waterfall-like architectural lacquered sculpture by Okada Yuji presented at the 33rd National Modern Crafts Exhibition (Nihon Gendai Kogeiten) in 1994. It is created in a contemporary version of the centuries old technique known as Datsu-Kanshitsu...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Contemporary item #1445128 (stock #0494)
Momoyama Gallery
$9,900.00

Kuwata Takuro makes the most characteristic pottery we have ever seen, and when you look at this spectacular piece it is easy to understand why.

This is his Ki-Ji Kinsai Chawan which comes with his originally with his seal, calligraphy and fingerprint signed wooden box.

Takuro surely needs no introduction. He was born in 1981 in Hiroshima and graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Kyoto Saga University in 2001. After that he started studying under Susumu Zaima in 20...

All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653754 (stock #X06)
36" x 32" x 13", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Contemporary item #1217585
Zentner Collection
$9,500.00
Japanese 20th century print of the Treasure Ship on the River of Our Mind 32/50 by Mayumi Oda. Mayumi Oda is a contemporary artist who studied fine art and traditional fabric dying at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts. She is known by many as the Matisse of Japan. A young maiden, playing a stringed instrument, rides on a dragon shaped ship loaded with treasures. The ship floats along orange waves. The print has red and orange pigment with golden clouds and other gold accents. Signed an...
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653752 (stock #X04)
25" x 17" x 3.5", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1199328
Zentner Collection
$9,000.00
Mayumi Oda. b. 1941 in Tokyo. "Chant of the Ocean Nautiles" and "Chant of the Ocean Conce" two complimenting artist proofs woodblock prints with gold and white ink printed in black paper. 17.5 x 25.5 inches and 29.25 x 42 inches with frame. No condition problems to note. According to her own biography Mayumi Oda is known to many as the ‘Matisse of Japan’, Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery. From 1969 to the present, Mayumi has exhibited over 50 one-woman shows thr...
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653743 (stock #X01)
19.5" x 16", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born in 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelpia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, inclduing six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483613 (stock #23)
A striking Dry Lacquer form covered in black lacquer with a galaxy of red and gold swirling about the offset neck, the entire an undulating wave of abstracted dimensions by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 32 x 27 x 8.5 cm and in perfect condition, dating from 2007.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High School Lacquer Course, Receiving top prize for his graduation project. In 1969 he apprenticed unde...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1482985 (stock #28)
Geometric designs in glimmering Raden (abalone shell) cross the surface of this intricate box by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Youko. Inside gold nashiji glistens on the mirror black surface. It is 15 x 15 x 11 cm (6 x 6 x 4-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High School Lacquer Course, Receiving top prize for his graduation project....
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Pre 2000 item #1482991 (stock #16)
A wave like form seemingly cut from stone decorated with a river of black lacquer in which flows inlayed mother of pearl and Suzuita metal strips by Okada Yuji exhibited at the 32nd National Modern Crafts Exhibition in 1993. An exciting and striking work sure to inspire conversation. It is 43 x 55 cm. The height is dependent upon how it is displayed (we currently have one side elevated to flow like a waterfall).
This defines the challenging spirit of the artist, always pushing the boun...
All Items : Artists : Metalwork : Pre 2000 item #1368443 (stock #A2A-01)
Japanese 20th century silver vase with peony and vine design by metal artist, KAWAMURA SEIJI. KAWAMURA SEIJI was born in 1902 in Beppu City. He lived until 1995. He participated in many exhibitions such as the BUNTEN in 1936. Signed Seiji on bottom. 4 The vase comes with TOMOBAKO, or original artist signed wooden storage box.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1990 item #1331813 (stock #0313)
Momoyama Gallery
$7,500.00

We like to present you this Shino Masterpiece of legendary Tokuro Kato, named 'amongst the clouds', coming with corner protections, a silk shifuku, a stamped pouch and its original double wood box, signed and sealed (Signature of 'Gen' - please compare http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/christies-south-kensington/catalogue-id-srchristi10016/lot-333068c2-4555-4b6a-abba-a3f700026090). It is in absolutely mint condition, a museum quality piece of art. We also will add the fine ...

All Items : Artists : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1199114
Zentner Collection
$7,500.00
Tetsuya Noda, born 1940 in Kyushu. The art is a framed silkscreen mixed media work, part of the "Diary" series dated August 26th, 1985. The image and title is of his home town in Kayuwara. The edition is 11 of 15. The image size is 36 x 23 inches and 47.5 x 35.625 inches with frame. Excellent condition. Noda is part of the Sōsaku-hanga art movement and is considered a major 20th century Japanese artist.
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Pre 2000 item #1484083 (stock #14)
A large modernist Sculpture covered in lacquer, polished metal and mother of pearl by Okada Yuji exhibited at the 1990 Gendai Kogeiten. Suzu-ita, Mother of Pearl and colored lacquers on Wood and Acrylic panel it is 80 x 42 x 18 cm (31-1/2 x 16-1/2 x 7 inches) and is in excellent condition. It comes with a wooden placard titled and signed by the artist.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from the Kyoto Hiyoshi-ga-oka High School Lacquer Course, Receiving top pr...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Sculptural : Contemporary item #1463686 (stock #TRC230910)
From a well-known series entitled “Chōtō” (Listening to the Waves) this large contoured vase features a sandy glaze that the sculptor claims is an expression of the features of the landscape where he grew up. The Chōtō series that launched his career proved to be wildly popular and today a number of pieces are held by museums around the world including: Brooklyn Museum; Hyôgo Museum of Ceramics; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Musée National de Céramique, Sè...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Sculptural : Contemporary item #1433725 (stock #TRC230918)
From a well-known series entitled “Chōtō” (Listening to the Waves) this large contoured vase features a sandy glaze that the sculptor claims is an expression of the features of the landscape where he grew up.

Born in the port city of Shimoda, Sakiyama studied art in Osaka and then later went on to open his own kiln that he named “Hidaka” (High Sun). Appearing to have a natural gift for form and proportion, his pieces soon attracted the attention of galleries and collectors...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1483852 (stock #25)
Gold disks like suns gleam in a shimmering blue cloud of mother of pearl stars on this dry lacquer vase by Okada Yuji dating from 2011. In the center, a golden spout rises up from a deep pool, like a digitized map of the event horizon of a black hole. An incredible shape and incredible work of art by this important post-war dreamer. Each golden spot visible on teh surface is hirame, not a tissue thin gold overlay, but a solid gold disc embedded into the surface the surface then ground down to re...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Pre 2000 item #1483805 (stock #15)
An architectural sculpture in glistening gold lacquer and mother of Pearl by Okada Yuji exhibited at the 30th Gendai Kogeiten National Modern Crafts Exhibition in 1991. This certainly shows the challenging spirit of this versatile artist, and defines his works from the mid 80s to mid 90s which were replete with inlays and gleaming with gold. The center are acrylic panels carved with enigmatic patterns, leaving the viewer to question, from what distant society or alien world the item hails. Li...
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653753 (stock #X05)
24" x 15", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1491123 (stock #YM001)
An undulating ceramic sculpture of overlapping layers reminiscent of a scholar stone by Yamaguchi Mio titled Wakuraba. Wakuraba is a word from the Manyoshu, it implies a leaf which has changed color due to age or insects (like a late summer leaf yellowing in comparison to leaves around it) or on a completely different level can mean to suddenly and unexpectedly meet. It is roughly 38 cm (15 inches) diameter, 83 cm (32-1/2 inches) tall and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. Thi...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1486271 (stock #HT18)
A truly one of a kind sculpture of three stacking pottery objects in oxidized color by rising star Hashimoto Tomonari. The only work like this the artist has yet produced, it is 82 cm (32 inches) tall and all in excellent condition, directly from the artist this year. We have many photos of the individual pieces from all angles if you would like to see them. Please inquire.
Hashimoto Tomonari was born the son of a sculptor and has felt comfortable with the processes of creation since chil...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1490969 (stock #YM022)
A massive Blue Sculpture titled Sway by Yamaguchi Mio created as a reflection of the layered growth of organic forms such as shells and pine cones. Inspired by this natural growth, her work is likened to life in the depths of the ocean, along the seashore, of the layers of earth itself. She has made few works in blue, one of which is currently on display at the Chicago Art Institute for those in the area. This is a masterpiece. It is 74 cm (29 inches) tall, roughly 37 cm (15 inches) diameter a...
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653744 (stock #X02)
27 1/8" x 33", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1491634 (stock #YM012)
A wild pottery sculpture by Yamaguchi Mio titled Manimani (every moment), the sandy terracotta colored clay completely unadorned, rising from three feet like some exotic earthen flower. It is 40 x 50 x 59.5 cm and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist dating from 2023. It comes with a signed wooden placard.
Due to size, the cost of shipping will be accrued separately.
Yamaguchi Mio was born in Aichi prefecture in 1992, and graduated advanced studies at the Aichi Unive...
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653777 (stock #X12)
29" x 16" x 29", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Contemporary item #1464483 (stock #RS-48)
Gallery Rex
$5,926.00
This piece is styled "uzukumaru" pot, it means "squat", Uzukumaru pot is originally made for storing seeds. Since tea masters like as Rikyu used them for vase in the tea room, it has been called "uzukumaru" and loved by them for tea goods. Sugimoto's Iga pieces are usually 3 times fired in "Anagama" kiln, one term for firing is 10days, so it follows that they are fired for 30days.And then they has been making dynamic scene on the surface. YouTube movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoN4t0VW...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Contemporary item #1482987 (stock #30)
Thick hirame polished gold disks glimmer on the surface of this peach-shaped container by Okada Yuji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Toju. The peak is tinged pink, while a green leaves embedded with kiri-gane gold wrapping up the sides. A striking work of kanshitsu (dried lacquer art) from the pinnacle of the artists career. It is 7.5 cm (3 inches) tall, the same diameter and is in excellent condition.
Okada Yuji was born in Kyoto in 1948 and graduated with honors from...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Jars : Contemporary item #1464396 (stock #RS-46)
Gallery Rex
$5,555.00
Ancient Iga pottery works had been made for a few decades since last Momoyama period from early Edo period. They were fired over 1250 degrees Celsius for 10 days and repeated 3 times and more with no glaze, they has natural glaze that is consist of melted ashes, burnt deposits and scarlet by fire. They are well known as dynamic style and loved by many tea ceremony master like as famous Oribe Furuta. However, they needed expensive costs, so they could not be continued. And Sadamitsu Sugimoto re...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Pre 2000 item #1483612 (stock #9)
A striking work of lacquer art in unusual blue by the ever-challenging Okada Yuji dating from early in his career, circa 1975. The work is performed on a panel with built up mounds over which has been applied colored lacquer and gold foil. Down the center a zigzag line of mother of pearl is inlaid. To this design has been added extruded lacquer decoration bordered in burnished Suzu-ita metal overlay. The panel is 80.5 x 145 cm, about 2.5 cm thick, in excellent condition.
Okada Yuji was bor...
All Items : Artists : Lacquer : Pre 2000 item #1483015 (stock #08)
A 7 tiered pagoda like Tower in red and black lacquer by Okada Yuji exhibited at the 13th Nitten National exhibition in 1981 titled Hokuto no Shirushi (Guide to the North Star). It is made of wood cores around a metal box, each “wing” covered in alternating layers of red and black with sheet suzu metal edging. On top is an acrylic panel engraved with a target finder-like symbol (guiding us North). It is roughly 60 cm (2 feet) square, 38 cm (15 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Sculptural : Contemporary item #1248419 (stock #1122)
This piece was just recently displayed at the Korea Society exhibition, Korean Contemporary Ceramics, the first exhibition on this subject in New York. Kang Jong Sook is easily the most ubiquitous Korean ceramic artist in America. She has been at the forefront of the contemporary ceramic art scene in New York for two decades now. Kang has had solo exhibitions at the Hammond Museum, Montclair State University Museum, Bratislava Museum, Dai Ichi Gallery, and Tong In Gallery, among others. She is a...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Contemporary item #1388171
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00
Wonderful medium-sized crater bowl, thinly potted of black clay and with glossy black glaze pitted with craters for volcanic moon-like effect, Signed Lovera; James Lovera (American, 1920-2015) modernist potter. Teacher at San Jose State University. James Lovera exhibited at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento in 2006: "Craters of Fire: Ceramics by James Lovera". With original inventory tag.

Age: c. 1990s.

Size: 8.5" Diameter x 5.25" Height
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Contemporary item #1467889 (stock #RS-56)
Gallery Rex
$4,900.00
Ancient Iga pottery works had been made for a few decades since last Momoyama period from early Edo period. They were fired over 1250 degrees Celsius for 10 days and repeated 3 times and more with no glaze, they has natural glaze that is consist of melted ashes, burnt deposits and scarlet by fire. They are well known as dynamic style and loved by many tea ceremony master like as famous Oribe Furuta. However, they needed expensive costs, so they could not be continued. And Sadamitsu Sugimoto re...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Contemporary item #1464152 (stock #RS-40)
Gallery Rex
$4,900.00
Ancient Iga pottery works had been made for a few decades since last Momoyama period from early Edo period. They were fired over 1250 degrees Celsius for 10 days and repeated 3 times and more with no glaze, they has natural glaze that is consist of melted ashes, burnt deposits and scarlet by fire. They are well known as dynamic style and loved by many tea ceremony master like as famous Oribe Furuta. However, they needed expensive costs, so they could not be continued. And Sadamitsu Sugimoto re...
All Items : Artists : Jewelry : Bracelets : Pre 2000 item #1385802
ANDREA FATELL
$4,900.00
Sensational hand crafted sterling inlay bracelet with turquoise, shell, jet, sugalite and coral by Navajo/Hopi silversmith Jesse Monongye. I believe he made this bracelet in the late 80's or early 90's. It measures 5 1/4" around in the inside with an additional 1 1/4" opening and is 3/8" wide. Weighing 38 grams, it is in fine original condition and signed as shown. There are no chips or cracks to the vibrant colored stones. The color combination is superb as well as the balance of design in this...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Pre 2000 item #1342462 (stock #0337)
Momoyama Gallery
$4,800.00

One of a kind and absolutely rare: Very large Oni Shino Yohen Tsubo by Tsukigata Nahiko, enclosed in its originally signed double wooden box. A true masterpiece, 8,3 kg heavy, 28 cm high with a maximum circumference of 88 cm, imagine that.

Tsukigata Nahiko (1923-2006) actually needs no introduction. He was not only an accomplished ceramic artist, but also a musician, painter, calligrapher and sculptor.

Tsukigata was born in Niigata prefecture, he studied at the Waseda Un...

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Jars : Pre 2000 item #1421757 (stock #TRC210923)
A truly unique work of Shino pottery developed among the company of some of Japan’s most respected and influential potters of the last century. Defying conventions of form and genre, this exceptional mizusashi looks like it could have emerged from the ground fully formed, the result of geological processes lasting millennia. The creator of this fine work is none other than Tsuboshima Dohei, a true master of the ceramic arts.

Born in 1929, at the age of 17 Tsuboshima took an appre...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 2000 item #1478848
Fantastic vase by the legendary Miyashita Zenji 宮下善爾 (1939-2012), one of the greatest contemporary Kyoto potters. This was made using the colored clay technique that he was best known for— such pieces are exceedingly rare, most being found in numerous museums world-wide, and a shrinking number of private collections. Title: Colored Clay Flower Vessel Wind Ritual (Deisai kaki Fūsai 彩泥花器風祭) Medium: glazed stoneware with colored clay inlay Size: 39.4 x 8 x 8 cm Signed o...
All Items : Artists : Metalwork : Pre 1980 item #1368445 (stock #B2U-07)
Japanese 20th century bronze vase with abstract leaf design by TSUDA JOYO. The vase measures 16" tall by 6 5/8" in diameter.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1980 item #1388422 (stock #0439)
Momoyama Gallery
$4,500.00

A true Mashiko Chawan by greatest Shoji Hamada with a real beautiful Ameyu glaze, double boxed and originally signed and sealed by the artist.

This treasure was part of the exhibition "The artists who searched for Mingei".

Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) was one of the leading potters of the Japanese Mingei (Folk Craft) movement. He was closely associated both with Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961), the philosopher-critic on whose theories the movement was founded, and the pioneer English st...

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Contemporary item #1478751 (stock #RS-69)
Gallery Rex
$4,490.00
Sugimoto is very famous for achievement of reproduction of Raku founder Chojiro piece, and now he has developed the method and he has made new excellent works. Black raku chawan is regarded one of most important things in tea ceremony. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td_-c4Kp2W4 Size: 11.5cm(D) 8.4cm(H) Accessary: double wooden box signed by artist
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653778 (stock #X13)
39" x 8.5", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653749 (stock #X03)
11.5" x 15", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1486456 (stock #HT13)
Vivid colors stand out on this fabulous multifaceted structure by Hashimoto Tomonari dating from this years firing. It is hollow, thus not as heavy as it looks, and comes accompanied by a signed wooden placard. The sculpture measures 37 x 36 x 36 cm (13 x 12 x 12 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Hashimoto Tomonari was born the son of a sculptor and has felt comfortable with the processes of creation since childhood. He graduated with a masters from the Kana...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1485865 (stock #TRC231105)


When the founder of the Urasenke style of tea ceremony, Sen-So Soshitsu (1622 -1697) was invited to Kanazawa as the master of tea ceremony for the powerful Kaga lords in 1666, the first Chōzaemon came with him and established Ōhi-yaki in Kanazawa. Chōzaemon had been the chief apprentice to the Raku family in Kyoto and took with him many of the principles and ideas associated with Raku-ware. Since those auspicious beginnings, Ōhi-ware has held a high place in the world of tea cere...
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653770 (stock #X09)
17" x 23.75", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653774 (stock #X11)
22.5" x 21.5", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Sculpture : Contemporary item #653773 (stock #X10)
19" x 23.75", oil paint on wood. Alan Kessler was born 1945 in Philadelphia, PA. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. He then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD where he received his Masters of Fine Art. He has had 16 solo exhibitions in New York, including six at O.K. Harris, two at the James Yu gallery, and the Dobrick Galleries in Chicago.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1489646 (stock #MC705)
Caribbean-Blue glass fills this crusty earthen bowl by Ogawa Machiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Saiyu Bachi. It is roughly 27cm (11 inches) diameter, 10 cm (4 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Ogawa Machiko was born in Sapporo on the Northern Island of Hokkaido in 1946. She studied under future Living National Treasures Fujimoto Yoshimichi, Tamura Koichi and Kato Hajime at the Tokyo University of Arts, graduating in 1969, then went on to further studies in ...