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
Ramona Solberg [1921 - 2005]
Brooch
Silver and trade beads
2 3/4" x 4 1/4"
c.1980s
Excellent vintage condition
A large Hidasuki Bizen Table by Shibaoka Nobuyoshi enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Two large circles beyond the burnt-straw remains gives the effect of the moon reflecting off water viewed through a rush of bamboo. The table is 17-1/2 by 9-1/2 by 4 inches (44 x 24.5 x 10 cm) and is in excellent condition. Nobuyoshi was born in 1950, the son of Ikkai...
Ao glazed teabowl with kushime combed slip decoration on faceted panels around the bowl
Stoneware, slip and glazes
4.7" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Rich temmoku glazed yunomi, teacup with impressed designs around the body. The impressed designs are high lighted with an ash glaze
Stoneware and glazes
4.2" X 3.85"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Faceted, mentori serving bowl with medieval green and temmoku glazes
Stoneware and glazes
8.5" X 3.8"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Lg. faceted mentori teabowl with temmoku and medieval green glazes. The surface of the glaze is streaked with iridescence
Stoneware and glazes
5.7" X 3.65"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large hakeme chawan with aka-e decoration around the bowl. In vivid red, a full moon style enso together with the expression; not one moon.
*** Please note, the actual color of the decoration is a vivid red, not the orange toned red shown in the pictures***
Stoneware, glaze and painted enamel
5.2" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
This bowl is not recommended for microwave use and should be hand washed
Rich and bold yuteki-temmoku chawan with phenomenal color and contrasting "partridge feather style oilspots. The exterior at the foot features a wonderful glaze roll that is caught forever in motion.
This bowl is in excellent condition,comes with an unsigned box, measures 5" X 3" and is unmarked. Though unmarked, this bowl is of very excellent quality and is most likely by Kimura Morikazu or Kamada Koji
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"
Very nice catalogue of the works of Tomimoto kenkichi, Ningen Kokuho. Tomimoto was Living National Treasure of Japan for his meticulously painted enamel porcelains...
A very large Kutani Vase decorated by eccentric Zen Priest and painter Shimizu Kosho enclosed in the original sgned wooden box. The outer surfaceis covered in genuine gold, overwhich has been brushed the decorative calligraphy reading……Hana mushin Maneku chocho, mushin tazuneru shin. The box lid is attributed within to having been fired at the Kutani Shoryu kiln by Kosho himself, and the pot is signed on the base Ryu...
White Celadon Jar Number Two by Kim Young Mi. This beautiful and unusual shade of celadon is achieved by the artist's skillful manipulation of the glaze. 7.5h x 7w inches, 19h x 18w cm.
Serene yuteki temmoku conical chawan made in the Chinese taste, though Japanese. The chocolaty oil spots float on the darker iron glaze as if suspended, or frozen in motion. The clay is a a fine buff stoneware and the kodai, foot is well tooled. The chawan is signed, but has not been read, though it is a fine bowl...
High sided temmoku tabi-chawan (traveler's chawan) with old style gold decoration of "spirali e tagli"
Stoneware, glaze and gold luster
4.5" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Beautiful, cool blue seiji celadon mizusashi with black lacquer lid by award winning Japanese potter; Ono Kotaro(b. 1953). Ono has won numerous awards for his carved porcelain works including the prestigious Mashiko Ceramics Competition (for which he was awarded the Hamada Shoji Prize)...
Large ameyu and haiyu, amber and ash glazed teabowl with a deep relief decoration known as the Shi-Tenno, Four Guardians.
Porcelain and glazes
5.75" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed porcelain covered serving bowl or covered jar (you decide) with a deeply etched "spirali" design under a three dimensional glaze
Porcelain and glazes
8" X 6.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Woo Jong Taek (born 1973) paints with ink and watercolors on both sides of the paper, combining the ancient techniques of Goryeo Dynasty Buddhist painting with modern techniques to create compositions that are deeply contemplative meditations on our modern times, casting the 21st Century everyman as Bodhisattva, offering us a thoughtful way to see our world. Woo is in touch with Korea's ancient history while he is also informed by the modern minjung 'people's movement' in art...
Woo Jong Taek (born 1973) paints with ink and watercolor on both sides of the paper, combining the ancient techniques of Goryeo Dynasty Buddhist painting with modern techniques to create compositions that are deeply contemplative meditations on our modern times, casting the 21st Century everyman as Bodhisattva, offering us a thoughtful way to see our world. Woo is in touch with Korea's ancient history while he is also informed by the modern minjung 'people's movement' in art...
Haiyu ash and Temmoku glazed teabowl with combed (kushime) slip decoration. The droozy haiyu glaze has an iridescent appearance with moss like effects running down the surface
Porcelain, slip and glazes
5.5" X 4.2"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large hardcover book with slipcase coving the modern works of Mashiko pottery. This book measures 8.5" X 12" and has 240 pages of full color illustrations...
Wonderfully color illustrated catalogue on the works of Ningen Kokuho, Living National Treasure; Arakawa Toyozo. The catalogue measures 10" X 10" and has 187 pages and covers chawan, mizusashi, chaire, tsubo, hachi and numerous other pieces. It also shows the diverse works of Arakawa, showing Shino, Seto-guro, Karatsu, Shigaraki, Bizen and numerous others styles that he worked in.
This catalogue shows works fired at various kilns across Japan, at friends kilns...
Luminous seiji kinuta (mallet) vase by Takahashi Wasaburo. This vase is very much in the style of Shimizu Un'ichi , his teacher and inspiration and shows a clarity of glazing and firing technique.
This vase is boxed and comes with it's stamped cloth and measures 9.75" X 4.75"...
Amber glazed, ameyu, etched teabowl with deep relief of a continuous "spirali" design around the body
Porcelain and glaze
5.3" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Vivid electric blue (bleu electrique) teabowl in lobed form with pedestal foot and vivid cobalt decoration running down from the lip
Porcelain and glazes
5.25" X 4.3"
Not intended for daily use
Spectacular Hi-iro defines this sake set by Konishi Toko II enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Various shades of color scorch the undecorated flame licked raw earth. A pleasure to drink from in every aspect, every cup offering a new facet. The tokkuri is 5-1/2 inches (14 cm) tall, cups 2-1/4 inches (6 cm) diameter and all is in perfect condition. Toko, of course, learned from his father Toko I (1899-1954) and was succeeded by his own son Toko III.
Elegant Hagi chawan with fine lip and kodai foot and a creamy and drippy rim of opaque glaze around the lip.
4.8" X 3.25"
Though marked, the seal is unread. This chawan was purchased at a store in Hagi. The original owner could not wait the extra day for the wood box, so it is presented here in a Hagi store gift box. It was thought that this chawan was made by Notomi Choun, but I will leave the detective work to the next owner.
Robust, large Shino vase of round form with areas of poured underglaze iron slip creating areas of Aka-Shino (iron red) and Muji-Shino (white)across the piece. This vase was made by the well respected and exhibited Kato Shuntei (1927-1995) who was a true Mino traditional potter.
10" X 3.75"
Original wood signed box included
A fine Nerikomi work by Living National Treasure Matsui Kosei (1927-2003) enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. The surface has a soft sheen, like the effect of being carved from gray marble. It measures 17 x 12 x 3 inches (43 x 30.6 x 7 cm), in perfect condition. Matsui was born in 1927, beginning his ceramic studies in 1946...
Large medieval green glazed bottle/vase, or even large tokkuri with hakeme slip decoration
Stoneware, slip and glazes
12" X 6.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
This large henko, molded bottle is by forth generation Otani-gama kiln master; Yano Shinichi. This henko comes with signed box and is in excellent condition.
The vase measures 5.25" X 5.25" X 10.25" but the measurements alone do not adequately present the volume and mass of this piece...
Large, oburi chawan form with a deeply etched spirals repeat design under the 3-dimensional Ao glaze
Porcelain and glazes
4.25" X 5.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Sitg
White crystalline glaze clings to the purple pitted sides of this fantastic set of 3 Mentori Shu-hai sake cups made especially for an exhibition in 2004 by Kato Toyohisa enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Enclosed is the original exhibition invitation showing a similar set. 1 cup is 5 inches (12 cm) tall, 4-1/2 inches (11 cm) diameter; the others are roughly 3-1/2 inches (9 cm) tall, 4 inches (10 cm) diameter. Toyohisa was born in 1962...
Gourd form covered jar with hakeme slip decoration and my handprints in clear glaze with the Ao glaze overall
Stoneware, slip and glazes
10.75" X 6.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust Shino vase of squared form with areas of poured underglaze iron slip creating areas of Aka-Shino (iron red) and Muji-Shino (white)across the piece. This vase was made by the well respected and exhibited Kato Shuntei (1927-1995) who was a true Mino traditional potter.
8.35" X 3.5" X 3.5"
Original wood signed box included