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

Glaze clings to the raw clay like the last remnants of winter snow hidden in the shadows on this Spartan bowl by world renowned artist Mihara Ken enclosed in the original signed wooden box,and dates to (2014). understatedly titled simply Wan. The unassuming form is simple and refined, a perfect compliment to the austere recesses of the tea room aesthetic...

Wood-fired Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Light Red Shino Glaze. Stamped with artist's mark. H. 3.00"(7.5cm) x Dia. 5.625"(14.5cm.) John Benn studied with F. Carleton Ball and Ken Stevens at the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and with Howard Shapiro and Sandra Simon in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, he built his first wood kiln...

Rare underglaze blue and red (gosu & yuriko) decorated chawan by Kawai Takeichi (Bu'ichi). Elegantly formed chawan with skillful use of underglaze colors and a predominantly gosu foot, kodai with blushes of iron around the foot as well.

Kawai Takeichi, also known as Bu'ichi, had a long and illustrious career. He apprenticed and worked with his uncle, Kawai Kanjiro for a long while before going off and establishing his own workshop...

Medium size V-bowl with rich temmoku and partridge feather trailed glaze. The foot which is clear glazed has two holes to pass a cord or wire through so the bowl may be hung on the wall.

Stoneware and glazes

11.25" x 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

A stunning white hagi glaze tinted with lavender cools on the sculpted natural from of this most expressive chawan by representative Hagi artist Kaneta Masanao enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is roughly 5 inches (13 cm) diameter, the same height and in perfect condition. Like Ryuichi, Masano likely needs no introduction, certainly one of Hagis most well known names, he has been displayed both nationally and internationally innumerable times...

Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan. Temmoku & Nuka Glazes. John Miller; Portland, OR. H. 3.375"(8.5cm) x Dia. 4.0"(10.25cm.) 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...

Black Raku Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Thrown & carved, individually gas-fired to 1900-1950 F (1038-1065 C.) H.3.25"(8.25cm) x Dia.4.5"(11.5cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in his life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates...

Very large Karatsu style teabowl that was thrown and tataki paddled with texture into an oval form. There are various tones of ash and iron yellow flowing about the bowl, especially seen on the inside. The foot is tooled by hand, off the wheel, to go with the form of the bowl. The clay is a mixture of actual river clay and my stoneware clay to give it an earthy iron brown flavor.

Stoneware, slip and glaze

6.5" x 4.75" x 3.85" Functional, decorative and food safe

Black Raku Chawan, Tea Bowl, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Pinched & carved with notched foot. Individually gas-fired to 1900 - 1950 F (1038-1065 C.) H.2.5"(6.5cm) x Dia.4.375"(11cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in his life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates...

A virtual textbook on Yohen firing effects. Tamadare, Shinshoku, koge and others decorate this spectacular tea bowl by Fukioka Shuhei enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Chawan and named inside Shizanro (Fuka-yama Michi or Deep Mountain Path).  This could be a reference to the five peaks which make up the rim, a traditional form codified in the mid Edo period by the Raku family of potters. It rests on a wari-kodai split foot, unusual for Iga-ware...

Black Raku Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Thrown & carved, individually gas-fired to 1900-1950 F (1038-1065 C.) H.3.5"(9cm) x Dia.4.5"(11.5cm.) Glazed foot. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in his life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates...

Large Ido style Hagi chawan with original signed box by Hayashi Koyo. This chawan has a great ido influenced form and a wonderful hagi "landscape" with various tones of blush and spotting.

This chawan is in excellent condition and measures 5.5" X 3.6"

Ao glazed teabowl with etched "Verses" design

Porcelain and glazes

5.15" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust Oribe style teabowl with kushime combed decoration over faceted planes around the bowl. The interior shows a wonderful texture created by the pooling glaze and intermingling of copper and iron in the glazes. The base of the bowl is my own temmoku glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.6" X 4"

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

Broad, rounded altered teabowl with dramatic undulating lip and glazed in my temmoku and partridge feather glazes

Stoneware and glazes

5.8" x 4.35"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Matcha Chawan, Tea Bowl, by Sachiko Furya; Honolulu, HI. Hira (wide) or Natsu (summer) Chawan shape. Bamboo Ash and Copper Glazes...