A stunning pair of sake cups depicting mice by the famous Kutani potter Matsumoto Saiichi 松本佐一 (b...
A gohonte plate depicting an umbrella and two maple leaves by famous Kyoto potter Imai Masayuki 今井政之 (1930-2023). He was a versatile potter, excelling in numerous techniques, including colored clay, shino and gohonte. Spots, called gohonte, randomly appear during firing as part of a chemical reaction between the glaze and the heat...
Whimsical piece by the important Seto potter, Suzuki Norifumi 鈴木紀文 (1940-2006).
Title: Zodiac Vase (Kanshi kabin 干支花瓶)
Medium: glazed stoneware
Size: 7.3 x 14.4 x 7.8 cm
Signature on the piece: Nori 紀
Date: Heisei Period, made in late 1994 for upcoming year of the wild boar (1995)
Condition: Excellent. Minor imperfections from firing. Excess drips of glaze on the bottom ground by potter...
A rare and wonderful sterling ring with shadow box 14k bezel set center carnelian by Arizona metalsmith Kim Rawdin. Kim Rawdin studied painting and art education in college in New York and his interest in jewelry started when he took a job as an art teacher on a Navajo reservation in Arizona. Becoming highly influenced by the beauty of the Arizona landscape, he is also influenced by traditional Japanese haiku and scroll paintings. This ring is a size 5 1/2, is 7/8" long and 3/4" wide...
Mint and Oni-Hagi masterpiece chawan with notched foot by star potter Seigan Yamane. This extraordinary tea bowl is covered by wonderful different shades of creamy beige on brown pottery. In my opinion it is the one of the most aesthetic chawans that he made. The seal of the artist is stamped on the bottom.
Seigan Yamane was born in 1952, and started making Hagi ware in 1987...
What a grand statement in clay: Sculptural masterpiece Kurinuki Hagi Chawan by greatest Kaneta Masanao. It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box and a profile of the artist.
This mountainous tea bowl in creamy-white glaze is in mint condition.
Born 1953, Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan,
The eighth-generation Hagi potter, KANETA MASANAO has expanded beyond the tradition of his ancestry to create a more sculptural oeuvre...
Madara Karatsu is one kind of Karatsu ware, used glaze made from straw ashes, very simple and sophisticated taste.
It's suitable for western cuisine.
Size : 25.5cm(D) 1.8cm(H)
Chosen karatsu is one kind of Karatsu wares, used iron galze and glaze made from straw ashes. It has carved pattern of shinning sun. it's beautiful the border line that the iron glaze and straw ashes glaze are mixing with each other.
This plate is suitable for not only Japanese cuisine but also western cuisine or desert.
Size : 20.0cm(S) 2.5cm(H)
Finest Kyo-yaki tea bowl with a hand painted golden lobster design by famous Japanese artist Sugita Shohei the 4th...
Victor Spinski (American, 1940-2013)
A Piece of Cake
Ceramic, Signed and dated: "(19)97"
6 3/4" Diam. x 4" H
Spinski was a leading figure in the avant-garde ceramics movement of the 1960’s and 70’s. Throughout his career, Spinski experimented with many different materials, forms and techniques, becoming most well-known for his tromp l'oeil clay sculptures, which often incorporated humor. In a 1983 article in the New York Times, art historian Helen A...
Artist - Andre Masson, French 1896 - 1987
Genre - Modernist, Surrealism, Modern Art
Work - "Aeneas and His Children" Lithograph in color on paper from the "Flight" portfolio / Edition # 185/250
Measurements - Image - 16" x 23", Frame - 19 3/4" x 15 1/2"
Date - 1969 - 70
Signed in pencil
Published by The International Rescue Committee, NY
Excellent condition
In excellent condition, this bird-shaped, or “torigata” vase is a beautiful example of Iga pottery from last century. A master of form, material, and technique, the potter Furutani Michio (1946-2000) wrote several books later translated to English on the construction and use of the “anagama”—an earth-dug, wood-fired, small-batch kiln traditionally used in Japan—celebrated for the extraordinary results that often emerge from its fires...
Lively wood fired Shino chawan by Kido Sadaaki. This stoneware chawan has a variety of wood fired effects from a thin coating of green ash about the surface to a crusty ash build up on the face of the pot. the bowl form fits well in the hand and the lip undulates enough to get the eye to observe the melted feldspar running into the interior and the deep, rich green pool that punctuates the center...
A very beautiful and attractive vase covered with a red, mottled glaze in the shape of a squat bottle with flat but slightly curving sides. Signed Eizo,* a disciple of Kawai Kanjiro. The piece is signed with the artist’s impressed seal in the bottom. Original, inscribed and signed box. H 21,5 x 20 x 12 cm. ca...
A rectangular moulded vase of stoneware with a short powerful neck. The body of light grey colour splashed with iron and blue glazes.
It comes with fully inscribed and signed storage box tomobako. H...
This is a rare painting on shikishi board by famous Kyoto artist Tokuriki Tomikichiro. He was best known for his prints, but was originally trained as a painter.
Brushed using ink and a limited color pallet, Tokuriki depicted a pair of lesser cuckoo (hototogisu 杜鵑) perched on a blossoming plum tree, a harbinger of spring.
Painted in late 1980s, and is 27.1 by 24.2 cm.
Signed: Tomi (富), red seal: Tomi (富). Comes in unmarked shikishi wrapper.
Condition: minor handling creases, minor ...
This is a rare painting on shikishi board by famous Kyoto artist Tokuriki Tomikichiro. He was best known for his prints, but was originally trained as a painter.
Brushed using ink and limited color pallet, Tokuriki depicted a butterfly and field horsetail (tsukushi) and a plant that is most likely field asparagus (udo), both widely used during spring in meals.
Painted in late 1980s, and is 27.1 by 24.2 cm.
Signed: Tomi (富), red seal: Tomi (富). Comes in unmarked shikishi wrapper.
Condit...
This piece was fired for 10 days in the "anagama" old style kiln, with red pine fire woods. It's very beautiful with natural glaze by ashes and flame.
Size; 6.0cm(D)/4.5cm(H)
Accessary; wooden box signed by artist
This is a rare painting on shikishi board by famous Kyoto artist Tokuriki Tomikichiro. He was best known for his prints, but was originally trained as a painter.
Brushed using ink only, Tokuriki depicted persimmon branches laden with fruit and a small bird, perhaps a crow, resting on one of the braches. Painted in early 1990s, and is 27.1 by 24.2 cm.
Signed: Tomi (富), red seal: Tomi (富). Comes in unmarked shikishi wrapper.
Condition: minor handling creases, minor abrasions, and minor st...
A wild boar kōgo by famous Kyoto potter Imai Masayuki 今井政之 (1930-2023). Decoration is a stylized version of the ancient Chinese character for wild boar. Masayuki used his famous inlaid colored clay technique in producing this piece. Imai Masayuki and the late Miyashita Zenji are considered the two masters of the colored clay technique in Japan.
Title: Inlaid Zodiac Wild Boar Incense Container (Zōgan kanshi i kōgo 象嵌干支亥香盒)
Colored and inlaid stoneware, 3.8 cm high a...
A stunning pair of sake cups depicting monkeys by the famous Kutani potter Matsumoto Saiichi 松本佐一 (b. 1930), using his signature technique, porcelain with underglaze gold leaf.
Title: Sake Cups (sakazuki 坏)
Medium: porcelain with underglaze gold leaf and overglaze enamel
Size: Wider: 3.1 x 8.2 cm and Taller: 6.1 x 4.6 cm
Signature in enamel on the bottom of both pieces: Saiichi (佐一)
Date: Heisei Period, 2002
Condition: no flaws: no cracks or repairs; m...
Millefiori art glass plate by Moretti
Murano, Italy
Late 20th century
Measures 6 1/2" in diameter
Signed with signature murrine
Excellent condition
This piece is made of shigaraki clay, covered shino glaze and painted by iron glaze and covered oribe glaze (oxidized copper). The oribe glaze has colored to very clear green.
Size: 8.4cm(D) 13.5cm (H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by artist
Ceramics decorated by Zen monks are seldom seen and this piece is no exception. Two red enamel characters are boldly brushed in red enamel conveying the strong bond between Zen and the tea ceremony. The bowl is inscribed and named Taste of Zen (Zenmi 禅味), and dates to the 1970s, when Seki Bokuō 関牧翁 (1903 – 1991) was well into his abbotship at Tenryū-ji, one of most important, and certainly most beautiful temples in Kyoto. The bowl itself is by the well-known hagi potter, Hara Kiyok...
Important original watercolor by Risaburo Kimura. While his prints are fairly common, his watercolors are not. This piece pre-dates City series started in 1967 that consisted of over 400 different renderings of imaginary city scenes. He grew up close to Yokohama and Tokyo, and later moved to New York City where he was fascinated with elements of the city, including the decay of a city, and how a great city can be rearranged into geometric elements. This was painted a year after he moved to New Y...
Stunning incised and purple glazed bowl by one of the best contemporary Seto potters, Katō Reikichi 加藤令吉 (b. 1953).
Title: Purple Colored Bowl (Shisai hachi 紫彩鉢)
Medium: incised and glazed stoneware
Size: 5.9 x 19.6 x 18.7 cm
Signed on the bottom: Rei (Rei 令)
Date: Shōwa Period, mid 1980s
Condition: no flaws: no cracks or repairs; minor imperfections from firing. Box darkened with age.
Comes with artist signed wooden box (tomobako) and potter’s bio (in Japanese).
T...
This is an exceedingly rare calligraphy on hand-made paper by famous Kyoto artist Tokuriki Tomikichiro. He was best known for his prints, but was originally trained as a painter. It is delicately brushed on Japanese hand made paper (24.2 cm x 21 cm), a bit smaller than shikishi size, and much thinner. Two edges are deckled. It is inscribed “Close Friend” (知音). Signed: Tomi (富), red seal: Tomi (富). Date inscribed on the back in pencil: 94.11.30. Condition: minor handling creases, mi...
A stunning pair of sake cups depicting rabbits by the famous Kutani potter Matsumoto Saiichi 松本佐一 (b. 1930), using his signature technique, porcelain with underglaze gold leaf.
Title: Sake Cups (sakazuki 坏)
Medium: porcelain with underglaze gold leaf and overglaze enamel
Size: Wider: 3.2 x 8.6 cm and Taller: 5.4 x 4.6 cm
Signature in enamel on the bottom of both pieces: Saiichi (佐一)
Date: Heisei Period, 1998 for 1999
Condition: no flaws: no cracks or r...
This important Zen tea bowl named “Phoenix Appears” (Hōōrai 鳳来) is a collaboration between the famous Kyoto potter Imai Masayuki 今井 政之 (1930-2023) and the equally well known Zen monk Matsunaga Gōzan 松長剛山 (b. 1943), Abbot of Kōtō-in, a subtemple of Daitoku-ji since 1971 and the 13th titular head of Hisada-ryu Arisugawa-kei school of tea. The chawan was made in the early 1970s, shortly after he ascended to abbotship of Kōtō-in. The chawan is earthenware with iron oxi...
A mouse kogo by famous Kyoto potter Imai Masayuki 今井政之 (1930-2023). He used his famous inlaid colored clay technique in producing this piece. Imai Masayuki and late Miyashita Zenji are considered the two masters of the colored clay technique in Japan.
Title: Inlaid Zodiac Mouse Incense Container (Zōgan kanshi nu kōgo 象嵌干支子香盒)
Colored and inlaid stoneware, 3.2 cm high and 7.1 cm in diameter.
Signature on the bottom of the piece: Masayuki (政之)
Date: Heisei Period, ...
A stunning pair of sake cups depicting monkeys by the famous Kutani potter Matsumoto Saiichi 松本佐一 (b. 1930), using his signature technique, porcelain with underglaze gold leaf.
Title: Sake Cups (sakazuki 坏)
Medium: porcelain with underglaze gold leaf and overglaze enamel
Size: Wider: 3.2 x 8.5 cm and Taller: 5.9 x 5.4 cm
Signature in enamel on the bottom of both pieces: Saiichi (佐一)
Date: Heisei Period, 2003 for 2004
Condition: no flaws: no cracks or r...
This sake bottle is a very rare piece among Sugimoto's works.
Ordinary, shigaraki pieces are fired in the anagama fire woods kiln, however this pieces is carved and colored with pigment, And fired in the kiln with charcoal. The pattern is called "shikishi kasane" a pair of square piece of fancy papers. It's a happy theme. The white grains are feldspar included in shigaraki clay. Special price.
Size:7.5cm(D) 19.5cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist
This sake cup is covered by white mud and clear glaze.
The highlight and charm of Kohiki is that skin of piece becomes to change as using.
Size: 9.0cm (D) 3.9cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist
The great master Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging to various kinds of pottery, Iga, Shigaraki, Raku, Ido, Kohiki, Shino, Oribe, Kiseto so on, And he has accomplished Celadon works. This piece has abstract pattern with copper glaze under the celadon glaze.
Size: 9.0cm(D) 3.0cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist.
This sake cup is a very rare piece among Sugimoto's works.
Ordinary, shigaraki pieces are fired in the anagama fire woods kiln, however this pieces is carved and colored with pigment, And fired in the kiln with charcoal. The pattern is called "shikishi kasane" a pair of square piece of fancy papers. It's a happy theme. The white grains are feldspar included in shigaraki clay.
Size:6.2cm(D) 5.6cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist
One of the highlight in this piece is in the crystal of feldspar around the base, it's a charm of ido cup most of all.
Size: 9.0cm(D) 4.8cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist