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An artist whose bold creations work well in a Western setting, here is a seminal piece decorated with huge white peony blossoms by Miyake Yoji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Nuki-e Kinsai Botan Mon Henko. Here the artist has set the luscious white flowers and leaves outlined in gold on a ground of rusty yellow, an intriguing combination. It is 27 x 15 x 34 cm (10-1/2 x 6 x 13-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition...
Albedo 3 Studio
$46.50
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High sided teabowl with excised chatter design inlaid in a dark contrasting slip under an iron yellow saffron glaze
Stoneware, slips and glazes
5.25" x 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Matcha Chawan, Tea Bowl, by Sachiko Furya; Honolulu, HI. Ido-gata (Well-Shaped,) Bamboo Ash and White Shino Glazes. H. 3.625"(9.25cm) x Dia. 5.375"(13.25cm,) Foot Ring 1.5" (3.25cm.) Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea...
Albedo 3 Studio
$265.00
$265.00
Generous Hagi chawan with a variety of colors infused within the white based glaze on a rich iron clay body by veteran potter, Udagawa Seikoku. This chawan is in great condition, measures 12.5 x 9cm and comes complete with its original signed wood box.
(I am keeping the description brief in an effort to get these put up in a timely fashion.)
Matcha Chawan, Tea Bowl, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Pinched and carved with a undulating mouth rim, Shino glaze. H. 2.75"(7cm) x Dia. 4"(10cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares...
This bowl by Shingu Sayaka looks to me as if it were made from petrified butterfly wings. It is titled Gakuyo Wan and comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 14 x 14 x 8.5 cm (5-1/2 x 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Shingu Sayaka was born in Osaka, the industrial and commercial heartland of central Japan, in 1979...
Welcome To Another Century
$350.00
$350.00
Kogo, box to keep incense, in the shape of a reclining boar, head and nose turned up. Red-brown stoneware with gray and pink glazes, typical for Hagi ware. Inside bottom and cover covered in gray glaze over pink.
Seal impressed in bottom: Tobei.
Japan, Hagi ware, ca...
Welcome To Another Century
$175.00
$175.00
Large, relatively tall chawan, as used in the tea ceremony. Light brown coarse stoneware covered with a celadon colored translucent glaze with brown speckles and with a purple and blue-green splash on the front. Unsigned...
Wood-fired Tea Bowl by George Gledhill; Payette, ID.
Shino glaze. H.2.5"(6.25cm) x Dia.4.75"(12cm.)
There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares...
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A Museum Quality piece by legendary Abe Anjin in the artists most sought after style of saishoku colors. It has the original wooden signed box, titled Bizen Saishoku Mizusashi,the Original lacquered wooden box also stamped by him,Artists history and wrapping cloth. This is a superlative work by the artist, and one I am very proud to be able to offer...
A fulling block form draped with ochre glaze over charred olive shades by Tsukigata Nahiko wrapped in a brocade bag and enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oni Shino Hana-Ike which is in turn enclosed in a black lacquered wooden double-wood storage box. It is a very traditional shape in Japanese pottery. This is 8 inches (20 cm) tall, 5 inches (12 cm) diameter and in excellent condition. A superlative example of this artists work...
A master work by one of the top artisans of the late 20th century—the result of techniques perfected over centuries by dedicated craftsmen residing in districts in and around Kyoto. This black Raku-style tea bowl produced by Sugimoto Sadamitsu beautifully exemplifies the essence of "wabi-cha" or the philosophy of finding beauty and deep philosophic meaning in rustic simplicity.
Sugimoto (b. 1935) is one of the most important Shigaraki potters alive today and continues to create...
Sugimoto (b. 1935) is one of the most important Shigaraki potters alive today and continues to create...
Fissured white is dribbled with blue and showing flashes of red in the cracks on this large, low Ofukei and Lacquer Guinomi, by Kodai Ujiie enclosed in the original signed wooden box. This is a handful, great tactile qualities and entrancing to look at. It is 8-8.5 cm diameter, 7 cm tall and in excellent condition, directly from his recent firing.
Kodai Ujiie was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in 1990, and graduated advanced studies at the Tohoku University of Art and Design in 2015....
Kodai Ujiie was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in 1990, and graduated advanced studies at the Tohoku University of Art and Design in 2015....
Bamboo Grove
$180.00
$180.00
MEDIA: Paper Cut-Out
TITLE: Hanging Flowers
ARTIST: Pi-Ping
SIZE: inside: 3 ¾ inches x 10 ½ inches; mat: 10 inches x 16 inches
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A perfect example of why Tsujimura Shiro is one of Japans most popular artist. Everything you could want in firing effects decorate the various sides of this work enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Mimitsuki Mizusashi. Bidoro, Tombo-no-me, tobi-hai, shiseki…the surface is an exploration of kiln affects, every slight turn bringing new surprises.
Size, D 23.8 cm H 22.8 cm
Condition, Excellent
Tsujimura Shiro was born in Nara in 1947, and began his ste...
Size, D 23.8 cm H 22.8 cm
Condition, Excellent
Tsujimura Shiro was born in Nara in 1947, and began his ste...
Korean Art and Antiques
$400.00
$400.00
Dragon painted in 1998 by Renowned Korean Artist Don Ahn aka Ahn Dong Kuk (1937-2013). We encourage you to research Don Ahn's sales record and market prices on sites such as Artsy, so you can appreciate what a great opportunity this is to purchase an original work of art by the master at a price well below the actual value. Don Ahn was a pioneer of Korean art in America. In the 1950s he was the first to move permanently to the US and receive recognition here, beginning with the 1952 exhibition o...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$300.00
$300.00
Murakoshi Takuma is a cherubic fellow who loves to share a cup. Therefore, he is quite good at making a guinomi you would not like to put down. This is a perfect example of that, a wide, shallow guinomi on a tall foot, undulating inside and out and covered in his tell-tale combination of Ash, Feldspar and Iron with occasional visions of untouched raw Shigaraki clay which he has poetically named Shunju or colors of the seasons. The cup is 9.5 x 8.5 x 7 cm (roughly 3-1/2 inches diameter just le...
A sumptuous wood grain bowl by Tanaka Eiko covered outside in red and black lacquer, the lacquer thin enough to allow highlights of the tiger-striped grain to show through. Her tree of choice is the Horse Chestnut (Jap. Tocchi), which has unparalleled grain patterns. A perfectly fitted black lacquered lid with elegant finial covers the bowl. It is 10 cm (4 inches) diameter, signed on the base and comes in her red paper box with shiori card.
Tanaka Eiko was born in Aichi Prefecture in 19...
Tanaka Eiko was born in Aichi Prefecture in 19...
Wood Fired Guinomi, Sake Cup, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Shino Glaze. H. 2.25"(5.75cm) x Dia. 3"(7.5cm.) Volume = 4oz (120cc.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$5,500.00
$5,500.00
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...
Okada Yuji was bor...
Keikan-ko (Chicken Head) Vase, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. Inspired by a historical Chinese shape. Shino and Bamboo Ash Glazes, with braid handle. H. 9.5"(24cm) x W. 5.75"(14.5cm.)
Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degre...
Albedo 3 Studio
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Wonderful yakishime Shigaraki chawan by veteran potter; Tani Seiuemon.
12.8 x 9 cm
Perfect, unused condition with signed box and stamped tea cloth
Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, Ido-gata (well-shaped,) by Sachiko Furuya. H.3.5"(9cm) X Dia.6.375"(16.25cm) X Footring Dia.2.375"(6.25cm). Gray glaze.
Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degree from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa. Sh...
Japanese Art Treasures
$125.00
$125.00
An early work by the important Shino potter Katō Yasukage XIV 14 代加藤康景 (1964-2012), made as Katō Masaharu 加藤正治, a name he used before ascending to a family name in 2001. A twelve petal chrysanthemum is depicted on the lid.
Titled Shino Incense Container (Shino kōgō 志野香合), it is made of glazed stoneware, and is 3.4 x 5.8 x 5.6 cm. An illegible signature is on the bottom of the piece that dates to Heisei Period, mid 1990s. Excellent condition-–no cracks or repairs...
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Mixed stoneware clay, unique curved lines, movement, form, pattern and warm textures of nature are a clear influence of those works by Izumita Yukiya enclosed in their original signed wooden boxes titled Sekisoh Guinomi and Sekisho Tokkuri respectively.
Yukiya was born in 1966 in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture . In1995 opened is own workshop. His list of exhibitions and awards is too long to print, but include the grand prize at the Asahi Ceramic Exhibition in 2000 and 2002, the...
Yukiya was born in 1966 in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture . In1995 opened is own workshop. His list of exhibitions and awards is too long to print, but include the grand prize at the Asahi Ceramic Exhibition in 2000 and 2002, the...
Momoyama Gallery
$7,500.00
$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 ...
Tea Cup, Yunomi. White Shino Glaze Exterior and Interior with Iron Rim. John Miller; Portland, OR. H. 3.125"(8cm) x Dia. 2.875"(7.5cm.) Vol. 8oz (240cc.) John Salgir Miller was born in Elmira, NY, in 1974 and earned his BFA in ceramics and illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has been inspired the mingei aesthetic and by the work of Shoji Hamada since he began studying ceramics in high school. While at Mass Art studying under Ben Ryterband (who spent time studying pot...
Closely resembling a historically important tea bowl made by one of the forebears of the art of tea and Raku pottery, Chojiro, this piece gives one a sense of the deep origins of tea culture.
Fired in the kilns of one of Kyoto’s best known Raku-yaki potters, Sasaki Shoraku III (1944-). The Shoraku line began when the grandfather of the current potter established a kiln near the famous Kiyomizu temple, nestled at the foot of the eastern mountains in Kyoto. In 1945, the kiln was mo...
Fired in the kilns of one of Kyoto’s best known Raku-yaki potters, Sasaki Shoraku III (1944-). The Shoraku line began when the grandfather of the current potter established a kiln near the famous Kiyomizu temple, nestled at the foot of the eastern mountains in Kyoto. In 1945, the kiln was mo...
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Kakurezaki Ryuichi is one of the most well known of Bizen potters, he is interestingly originally not from Bizen but far off Nagasaki, which seems to have gifted him with the ability to see the clays potential beyond conventional form. He graduated the Osaka University of Fine Arts, then enjoyed a long apprenticeship under Bizen Living National Treasure Isezaki Jun before opening his own kiln in 1986. Combining traditional technique with modern architectural form, He was recipient of the Japan C...
A Heavy Slab-formed open rectangle of buff stoneware decorated with blanks of color “peeling” from the sides by Okada Kenzo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kaku Tsubo. It measures 16 inches (40 cm) tall, 4-1/2 x 20 inches (12 x 51 cm) and weighs 16.5 kilograms (36 lbs) not including the box. It is in excellent condition. Due to size and weight the cost of shipping will be accrued separately.
Okada Kenzo (b. 1948) is based physically in Mashiko but his work is based v...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$1,200.00
$1,200.00
Ash simply blankets this vessel by Koyama Kiyoko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Shizen-yu Tetsuki Hanaire. It is 29 cm (just less than 12 inches) tall, roughly 5 inches diameter and in excellent condition.
Koyama Kiyoko was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1936. Following the second world war the family moved to Shiga prefecture, eventually settling in the pottery village of Shigaraki. She took a job as a ceramic painter's assistant at a young age. In 1954 she b...
Koyama Kiyoko was born in Sasebo, Nagasaki in 1936. Following the second world war the family moved to Shiga prefecture, eventually settling in the pottery village of Shigaraki. She took a job as a ceramic painter's assistant at a young age. In 1954 she b...
Small Dishes with kaki (persimmon) and gosu (blue) glazes, Mashiko-yaki, by Tagami Munetoshi of Hinata Kiln, Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. H.1.125"(3cm) x Dia.3.75"(9.5cm.) Tagami Munetoshi (b. 1972) is the son of Tagami Isamu and grandson of Sudo Takeo. He is the 5th generation of potters in Mashiko’s Hinatagama (Hinata Kiln) founded during the Meiji Period (1868-1912) by Sudo Yujiro. At the age of 16, he started his apprenticeship under his grandfather and then right after high school went t...
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A breathless moment as the host passes to bowl filled with green tea in front of you, and what a thrill, it is a captivating Chawan by preeminent artist Tsujimura Shiro, slightly asymmetrical and propped up an a split base of three parts (wari-kodai) and you realize…”He has not made these for years!”. And yet there it is, right in front of you. Only now seen in books and old catalogs. What a pleasure it is to hold it, the coloring, the texture, the flame-licked sides and the weight! ...
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One of the best pieces I have seen by this revolutionary artist, enclosed in the original signed wooden boxes titled Kuro Tokkuri and date to 2019. Texture, form, colors and every angle creates a new view. Those ones has it all!
Size,(Left) D 8.9 cm H 14.8 cm
Size,(Right) D 7.8 cm H 16.1 cm
Condition, Excellent
Kakurezaki Ryuichi is one of the most well known of Bizen potters, he is interestingly originally not from Bizen but far off Nagasaki, which seems to...
Size,(Left) D 8.9 cm H 14.8 cm
Size,(Right) D 7.8 cm H 16.1 cm
Condition, Excellent
Kakurezaki Ryuichi is one of the most well known of Bizen potters, he is interestingly originally not from Bizen but far off Nagasaki, which seems to...
Tarnished silver glows dully inside this raw clay bowl by female pottery pioneer Ogawa Machiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Wan. It is 14 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter, 7 cm (3 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...
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...
Albedo 3 Studio
$52.50
$52.50
Small pitcher (jug) with medieval green and temmoku glazes and an "imprint" pattern on either side
Stoneware and glazes
7.5" x 6.5" x 5"
Functional, decorative and food safe