Hakeme (hakame) decorated cap jar with rich Ao glaze. This form was inspired by a Japanese chambara film with a silhouetted "ronin" in rain hat and cape with folded arms standing as a solitary figure in the rain.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
10.5" X 6.25"
Great set of books on modern Japanese studio pottery; GENDAI CHATO TAIKAN...
Robust iron and white neriage teabowl with bold Jovian Storms pattern running through out
Porcelain and glaze
4.25" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Two tone, iron and black neriage porcelain stem style yunomi
Porcelains and glaze
3.65" X 3.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed neriage (contrasting clays) mizusashi, complete with custom lacquer lid. A great piece for use or as a statement
Porcelain and glazes
5.5" X 5.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Mashiko-ware yunomi (tea cup),new. This is a kata (mold) made yunomi, refered to in the local Mashiko dialect as a "mambo" yunomi. It has been a standard production item in Mashiko for many years. This cup features an "ame" (yellow - wheat gluten) glaze with an open medallion featuring a blue brushworked "sasa" bamboo leaf pattern. Volume = 6 oz/180ml. H.3.125"(8cm) X Dia.3.125"(8cm.) The town of Mashiko is located about 70 northwest of Tokyo, in Tochigi Prefecture...
A very serene Yuteki temmoku chawan by the famous Taniguchi Ryozo. Taniguchi, along with Miura Shurei, Kimura Moriyasu and Morikazu and Kamada Koji are famous proponents of the "oilspot" field.
This chawan is an excellent example of Taniguchi's work and masterful control of his glazes...
A very large (oburi) and powerful Shino chawan by Miyamura Yoshinobu very reminiscent of Hayashi Shotaro's works. Thick splashes of pure white Shino glaze punctuate the rusty red Aka-Shino glaze which covers the entire teabowl.
This chawan measures 5.4" X 4" and is in perfect condition and comes with it's signed box.
An excellent example of the great works being made today based on Momoyama era Mino-yaki...
Richly Ao glazed Wangata style teabowl with a Shono pattern around the bowl
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.25" X 3.6"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Momoyama influenced serving bowl(sukashi-bachi) with incised and pierced triangles around the circumference of the bowl in Ao and clear glazes
Stoneware and glazes
8.25" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Tear drop form tokkuri in the Jovian Storms pattern neriage and a rich and three dimensional Ao glaze which runs from steel blue-grey to green with blue highlights
Porcelain and glazes
7.75" X 5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Porcelain yunomi glazed in an Ao glaze, blue to green over the Jovian Storms neriage pattern
Porcelain and glazes
3.75" X 3.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
A truly Massive chozara Oribe Platter by important potter Ando Hidetake (b. 1938) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Relying entirely on sculptural presentation, the interior is devoid of any decoration, the heavily sculpted basin simply coated with glassy-green oribe glaze. Deep grooves have been cut from the slab of clay, the edges torn and ragged with dollops of green dripping from the base...
A huge museum quality pottery vase by Konishi Yohei (b.1941) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Tokoname Sen-Jomon Tsubo. The vase is 17-1/2 inches (45 cm) tall, roughly the same diameter and weighs 14 kg (30 lbs). It is in excellent condition, dating circa 1990. Yohei was born the son of Konishi Yusen in Tokoname city, graduating the Tokoname Ceramics institute in 1959...
Robust chawan, teabowl with Rozome grove pattern design around the bowl
Stoneware, slips and glazes
4.6" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 12 x 12 inches, 30 x 30 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Buncheong Ceramic Wall Panel by Yoon Ja Eui. Artist signed wood box is included. 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 27 x 27 cm.
Lg. energetic black & white slipware bowl with a raised slip "Verses" pattern. This bowl is made to hang on the wall if so desired
Terra cotta, slip and glaze
12" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust Oribe hakeme (hakame) vase with an exceedingly rich and traditional glaze with wonderful luster and depth
Stoneware, slip and Oribe glaze
8.25" X 5.75"
Rich Oribe glazed faceted (mentori) travel teabowl (tabi-chawan) with box and made in spring 2008. In perfect condition with rich copper flow tea pool.
Higuchi is well known for his tactile tabi-chawan in Oribe and Shino glazes and is published in numerous magazines and publications.
4.15" X 3"
Aoki Ryuzan masterful banded oilspot, yuteki temmoku with a powerful green ban bisecting the form. Boxed, signed and in perfect condition. 3.5" X 3"
Large and robust Kohiki (powdered white slip) yunomi, teacup by master potter Ogawa Tetsuo. Boxed, marked and in perfect condition. 3.2" X 3.5"
Both Aoki and Ogawa are well known for these techniques and style and are in numerous publications.
Aoki Ryuzan Oilspot Yunomi Sold, thank you!
Ogawa Tetsuo Kohiki Yunomi $95
Ame and copper glaze stacked stones style covered jar, mizusashi with a rain pattern decorated around the jar's waist and moss green accents at the foot and top
Stoneware and glazes
7.5" X 7"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Hi-dasuki lines of red charring streak across the surface of this large Tokkuri Vase by Isezaki Mitsuru (b. 1934) enclosed in the original signed wooden box. A smooth even profusion of bubbles welter about the clay, adding a tactile texture to the elongated body. The vase is over 20 inches (51.5 cm) tall and in perfect condition. Mitsuru was born to a family of potters, his father Yozan and brother Jun both very important in Bizen pottery...
Pair of "Jovian Storms" neriage bowls in sand/white and grey/white mixtures
Porcelain and glaze
Each approx. 6.25" X 3.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust Oribe hakeme (hakame) chawan inspired by very natural stacked stones
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.5" X 4.25
Functional, decorative and food safe
Heavily textured Taiko, drum form vase covered in a complex Temmoku glaze with wonderful lustrous sheen
Stoneware and glaze
9.2" X 9.25" X 3.9"
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 36 x 28.75 inches, 91 x 73 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 36 x 26 inches, 91 x 66 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 36 x 18.5 inches, 91 x 47 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Lee Seung O's innovative paper assemblage, 24 x 18 inches, 61 x 46 cm. Lee's work is in the permanent collection of many major museums, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, and he has an excellent auction record, with not a single work going unsold in the many major auctions that have listed his work over the last several years, including Christie's. It is said of Lee Seung O that he is an old spirit with a young mind...
Ameyu, amber glazed saucer vase with copper overglaze in a lattice pattern that has run to resemble hanging moss
Stoneware, glaze and overglaze
11" X 5.5"
Artist signed wood box is included. 16 x 10.5 x 6.75 inches, 41 x 27 x 17 cm.
Compact tokkuri (sake bottle) in Jovian Storms neriage pattern. This piece can be used as a sake bottle, bud vase or just a decorative accent
Porcelain and glaze
6" X 4.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe