All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Contemporary item #1488133
A Yakishime Hanging Wall-vase by Mihara Ken enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Sekki Kakehana (Ash Glazed Wall Vasel). The entire work is soft and matte, like an old charcoal sketch, exuding a very powerful “Wa” sense of harmony. Ken is well known for this pastel color concept of un-presupposing grays, and this piece certainly lives up to our expectations for him...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Contemporary item #1488021
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All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487931 (stock #MC604)
Vibrant colors and glistening gold decorate this leaf shaped sculpture by Matsuda Yuriko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled HASU (Lotus Leaf). It is roughly 37 cm (15 inches) diameter and in excellent condition.
Matsuda Yuriko was born in Ashiya, Hyōgō Prefecture in 1943nd lives and works in Oshino, Yamanashi Prefecture. Yuriko is an avid exhibitor; it is a wonder she has time to do any work at all...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487930 (stock #MC611)
A deep wan-gata bowl swept with swirling Zen brush-strokes over earthen glaze by veteran female artist Shigemori Yoko enclosed ina wooden box titled O-Chawan (Big Tea Bowl). It is 13.5 cm (5-1/4 inches) diameter, 9.5 cm (just less than 4 inches) tall and in perfect condition, directly from the artist’ family and comes enclosed in a wooden box annotated by her nephew.
Shigemori Yoko (1953-2021) was born in Kagoshima...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Contemporary item #1487873
A charred Ash Glazed chawan by Kumano Kurouemon enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kuma Shino and signed To Kuroemon. Like the potter himself, this bowl is large and stable, seemingly welded to the floor by its own weight and presence. Despite that the kodai foot is small and delicate, adding creating tension between form and the space around it. A sublime example of this popular artist’s work...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487872 (stock #MC676)
A covered container made as an incense burner by Koyama Kiyoko slabbed and cored from Shigaraki clay and covered in glassy green motlen ash enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 13.5 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter, roughly the same height 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...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 2000 item #1487856 (stock #MC280)
A crumpled news print from the New York Times dated 82-5 by pioneering Ceramic Sculpture Icon Mishima Kimiyo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 25 x 14 x 13.5 cm (10 x 5-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Mishima Kimiyo was born in Osaka in 1932, and began her artistic career as a painter in the early 1960s. She started making collages with newspapers, discarded waste papers from printing companies, and old movie posters...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487855 (stock #MC608)
Enigmatic Blue Lines like the singsong lilt of twilit vespers jag rhythmically across the surface of this deep bowl by Shigemori Yoko enclosed in a wooden box titled simply Ao-sen Hachi (Bowl with blue lines). It is slightly misshapen, as she almost always purposely off-threw her work, giving it a sense of dynamism. The bowl is 17.5 cm (7 inches) diameter, 9 cm (3-1/2 inches) deep and in excellent condition, enclosed in a box annotated by her brother Naoki...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487852 (stock #MC248)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$1,250.00
Sale Pending
An elongated bowl playfully decorated in vivid color by Matsuda Yuriko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Zukini Nagabachi. It is 49 x 16 x 7.5 cm (19-1/2 x 6 x 3 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Matsuda Yuriko is an avid exhibitor; it is a wonder she has time to do any work at all. Both within Japan (Nihon Togei Ten, Gendai Togei Ten etc.) and without she has an impressive list of exhibitions in a host of countries...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Contemporary item #1487804
Another excellent example of this great artists work enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Chawan
Size, D 15.1 cm H 9,9 cm
Condition, Excellent
Born in Kagoshima, the southern extreme of the Japanese main islands in 1976, Shogo would have been inundated with the traditions of Kyushu, a massive area with dozens of ancient kiln sites producing everything from porcelains of the highest decoration in Satsuma to the dark forms of Kuro Satsuma nd Naeshirog...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Contemporary item #1487803
A dramatic work by Ikeda Shogo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Chawan ...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487697 (stock #MC294)
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$2,100.00
Sale Pending
Brilliant colors are blended into the layeres of clay forming this fabulous vessel by Matsui Koyo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Ryohai-yu Neriage Saihamon Tsubo. It is roughly 29 cm (just less than 12 inches) diameter and in excellent condition.
Matsui Koyo was born in the pottery village of Kasama, son of future Living National Treasure Matsui Kosei, in 1962...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487673 (stock #MC641)
Stratified layers fold over in a timeless rhythm on this covered box by Izumita Yukiya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Sekisoh Futamono. The laminated layers and uneven kiln texture folded over and over again, create a unique cadence on the baked earth which offers the viewer both urbanity and a view of the wilderness that resembles the strata of the earth. If one has ever walked the shoreline of Iwate where this artist lives, the influence is clear...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 2000 item #1487672 (stock #MC617)
A fabulous form in striking colors by Miwa Eizo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi Hanaire. Raised from a square, the vase has been flattened, covered in Hagi glaze, then the shorter corners slabbed away revealing the raw clay. Thus fired, it is an engaging work of art, obviously buried slightly in the embers on one side, where it goes from smokey gray to mottled lavender and white into pink as it rises. It is 21 x 21 cm (8 x 8 inches) at the base, 30 cm (12 inches) tall a...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Contemporary item #1487633 (stock #MC616)
A earth-textured smoky black vase by Sato Kazuhiko enclosed in a superb signed wooden boxwith mori-buta (domed-lid) titled Kokuto Tsubo. It is 34.5 cm (13-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition. One of my personal favorites, Sato Kazuhiko was born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1947. He graduated the Tokyo University of Art Ceramic department advanced studies in 1972. Trained under Living National Treasures Tamura Koichi and Fujimoto Yoshimichi, his graduation work was awarded a prize. He he...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 2000 item #1487588 (stock #MC639)
A stunning large Vase by important Hagi artist Yamato Yasuo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi Ensai Henko (Flattened Hagi Vase in Flame Color). The top is raw earth burnt red by the flame, Below dark iron turns to ocher then the soft earthen beige of hagi, which gives way to pink, then cream before turning dark gray. It is 36.5 x 13 x 35 cm (14-1/2 x 5 x 14 inches) and is in excellent condition.
It is likely no collector of Hagi will need an introduction to this inn...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Contemporary item #1487577
Here is one of a kind Sake set consist of a Tokkuri, and six sake cups. Hakeme Karatsu,Ido Kohiki...., the many styles for which Shiro is known. Each is uniquely engraved with the artists signature, and they come enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Sake-ki Osoroi (Full Sake set). Something not simply to be seen or collected, but used and experienced.
All are in perfect condition.
Tsujimura Shiro was born in Nara in 1947, and began his steps into the art world as an oil pa...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Contemporary item #1487506
This is a handful, great tactile qualities and entrancing to look at. From his recent firing 2023.
Size, Each is roughly D 10.5 cm H 11.0 cm
Condition, all are in new condition.
Kodai Ujiie was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in 1990, and graduated advanced studies at the Tohoku University of Art and Design in 2015. He has been exhibited at some of Japan's top galleries as well as England, United States among others.