Madara glaze is made of ashes burned rice plant, Sugimoto has began to use this glaze recently.
YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on4URq1tAD0
Accessary: wooden box signed by artist
Size: 8.9cm(D) 4.5cm(H)
Large, open style chawan with hakeme, underglaze copper and overglaze red (aka-e) enamel decoration
Stoneware,slip, glaze and overglaze enamel
6" X 3.2"
Serving Dish, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. White, Bamboo Ash, Iron glazes. H. 2.375"(6cm) x Dia. 11.125"(28.5cm.) Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degree from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa...
This elegant work of Karatsu pottery has an unglazed foot, showing the rich ferrous clay from which it is constructed, and displays splashes of ferrous pigment on a backdrop of ashen glaze with a milky white overglaze. The triangular shape and large proportions make for a very distinctive work of e-Karatsu or “painted” Karatsu.
Like many pottery traditions in Japan, Karatsu takes its name from the city where it originated...
Full, rounded teabowl form with a rich temmoku glaze and a band of clear glaze decorated in gold of my grasses pattern
Porcelain, glazes and 24kt gold
5.25" X 4.24"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Stacked stones style lobed chawan with hakeme decoration under an Ao glaze
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.25" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Utsushi Aka-raku tea bowl called 'Seppo' (snow on the mountain peak) made by great contemporary artist Shoraku Sasaki. It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box. This Seppo Bowl is a replica of the famous tea bowl made by Honami Koetsu (see last picture), who was one of the most famous artists during the Edo period (1600's). He was known as the 'Da Vinci' of Japan...
Slightly oval teabowl with a a cut and combed texture in slip under a rich Oribe glaze with iron-ash accents.
Stoneware, slips and glazes
5" x 3.6"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ameyu amber glazed wall bowl, shallow bowl with a rich gosu cobalt decoration of a rain patter.
Stoneware made to hang as an option.
13.5" X 3"
Lustrous green Oribe glazed chawan over a combed "breaking waves" pattern highlighted with an underglaze wash of purple-brown
Stoneware, slip, wash and glaze
5.5" X 3.85"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Reishuuki, Cold Sake Decanter, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. Spouted Bowl with Braided Handle also suitable for flowers, food presentation. Gray glaze, decorated with applique clay loops. H. 4.75"(12cm) x Dia. 5.625"(14.5cm.) Width (including spout) = 7.0"(17.75cm.) Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea...
Old English style glazed yunomi (#1), teabowl with a repeat pattern of impressed medieval designs
Porcelain and glaze
4.25" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Broad, rounded neriage chawan with Ao glaze over the suminagashi influenced pattern
Porcelain and glazes
5.6" X 4.35"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Wood-fired Tea Bowl by George Gledhill; Payette, ID.
H.2.75"(7cm) x Dia.5"(12.5cm.) Shino, iron glaze.
There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares...
Amigasa (straw hat) style Chawan made by Shigaraki legend Sugimoto Sadamitsu (b. 1935).
The mark of the artist is carved on the bottom.
Size
Height 7cm
Width 16.5cm
In excellent condition.
Supplied with signed wooden box.
Sugimoto Sadamitsu, born in 1935, is a highly esteemed Shigaraki potter who holds a prominent position in the field even in his old age...
This piece is a new work recently launched, it is called "madara" glaze made of ashes of rice straw. The condition of glaze is very calm and warm.
Please see on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgYgFQK-4tk
Size : 14.2cm(D) 7.9cm(H)
Accessary: double wooden box signed by artist
Robust, manipulated teabowl with bamboo tool carved foot covered in my Oribe style glaze with iron accents over an impressed line design.
Stoneware and glaze
14 x 10cm.
Functional, decorative and food safe
Dohei Fujinoki is one of the most popular artist in contemporary KARATSU pottery scene.
Initially he aimed a western painter and then,when he met an old KARATSU pottery piece he had been fascinated.
He has studied at Karatsu and also MIno.
And while, he has studied in tea ceremony.
His repertoires are goods for tea ceremony, sake cup,
and tableware for Japanese cuisine.
This piece is a brand new work created with karatsu glaze and shaped to Goki meaning sacred cup.
SIZE: 13.2cm(D)/9...