One of the best pieces I have ever seen by this revolutionary artist, a dark flask covered in rivulets of flowing ash by Kakurezaki Ryuichi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kuro Tokkuri.  Two shell shapes where it was propped in the kiln stare out like eyes on some ethnic mask from the back side, the front awash in a molten ash, tendrils of which wrap around like many fingers.  It is breathtaking, and I am already jealous of the lucky soul who will get to keep it. 
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A powerful sake bottle in dark wet clay by Abe Anjin enclosed in the original signed double-wooden box titled Bizen Tokkuri. Once again Abe Anjin has proven his mastery of tradition with this superb rendition. Impurities in the clay mark the surface with pale ash dusts round the shoulders and rivulets of glaze running like lava down the side...

Hanging Vase, Kakehanaire, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Saggar fired with grass. H. 3.875"(8cm) x Dia. 3.25"(8.25cm.), with copper ring attached in back for hanging on a wall or post. 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...

A beautiful pure white porcelain sake set by female artist Awa Natsuki enclosed in the original signed wooden box. She has covered the surface with these designs, thousands of tiny dots, each one an essential part of the pattern. Even the boxes are a work of art. Purchased from the artist this summer...

The colors of the prism show through the thick crackled glaze blanketing this sake set, by Ujiie Kodai enclosed in their original signed wooden boxes and dating to 2023. This is a handful, great tactile qualities and entrancing to look at.
Size, Tokkuri D 11.8 cm H 17.8 cm
Size, Guinomi D 9.2 cm H 6.2 cm
Condition, New
Born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in 1990, and graduated advanced studies at the Tohoku University of Art and Design in 2015...

This large Tsubo by Tanimoto Yoh is amazing and all attitude. It comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Yohen Tsubo. The rivers of green glaze flow with the delicate textures in the surface, accumulating around a cluster of voids which look like the eyes of typhoons viewed from space...

A seminal work by Wakao Toshisada adorned with the quintessential elements of this artists work, a moon in gold over silver flowers on a gray Nezumi-Shino fold-textured ground.  It comes in the original signed wooden box titled very simply Nezumi Shino Hanaike.  Although I am not a botanist, I imagine the yu-gao (bottle gourd flower, called the face of evening in Japanese) opening to reveal its splendor to the rising moon, visible through the drying autumn grasses.  A superb example of the em...

Blue, yellow, white, red and gold decorated the green "reptilian skin" Oribe glazed body of this Contemporary sake set by Ujiie Kodai , enclosed in their original signed wooden boxes, dating to 2022.This is a handful, great tactile qualities and entrancing to look at.
Size, Tokkuri D 11.4 cm H 21.1 cm
Size, Guinomi D 8.1 cm H 7.1 cm
Condition, Excellent
Ujiie Kodai, a rising star in the word of pottery, was born in Sendai in 1990...

A two fantastic sake flasks by Koyama Kiyoko and Kohyama Yasuhisa. The Yasuhisa piece blasted with fire color of foggy green and yellow shizen yu glaze, slightly bented in the center,creating a pleasurable experience for both the eyes and the hands. The Koyama tokkuri showing a plethora of Yohen kiln effects covered in thick, dripping ash glaze, a product of her legendary long firings...

JUNRI HAMADA is one of the high-skilled pottery artist in Mino famous pottery production center. Especially focused on KISETO (yellow&green glaze). This piece is created with oribe glaze (green glaze) that was made in 16th century in Japan. It is seemed Japanese tea pot at a glance however the creator has made it as a vase. The handle is made by dried Japanese wild ivy, SIZE:10.0cm(length)17.5cm(width)/19.0cm(height)included handle

A stunning work by Shigaraki Legend Tsujimura Shiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box inside the lid of which is scrawled a nude figure and the epitaph NY 5/24/06. It is known that when in New York at an exhibition in 2006 the artist was entertained at a gentlemen’s club and was purported to have had a very good time. This is likely a reference to that event. The vessel is 14 inches (35 cm) tall, 12-1/2 inches (32 cm) diameter and in excellent condition...

An excellent companion to the Hagi Chawan also by this artist, here is a precipitous mountain form covered mostly in drifts of white and thin veneer of glaze over its gritty clay surface.  The form is that of the mountainous spires of Yabake, on the Island of Kyushu south of Hagi.  The Vase comes with Exhibition panflet with very similar vases like this one.
Size, D 12.4 cm ( 4.9 inches)  H 28.8  cm ( 11.3 inches) 
Condition, Excellent 
Saka Koraizaemon XII was born in T...

A boat shaped vessel by Kishimoto Kennin of Iga clay covered in green copper glaze enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Oribe Kaki and exhibited at a solo exhibition in Umeda Hankyu Department Store: catalog included.  It has a hurricane bow, the lines cut at a diagonal running down from it like froth leading to the wake as it plows forward.  It is a powerful work, and as the catalog shows, is excellent for flower arranging.  The Takarabune or boat shaped theme is a popular m...

Tall, bold vase by Shino and oribe specialist; Higashida Shigemasa (b. 1955). Glazed in his signature HakuSetsu Shino and haiyu glazes, this vase shows his strong deconstructivist styling married with contemporary Japanese aesthetics to create a unique and idiosyncratic work for which he is known for around the world...

A Koma (Shogi Playing piece) shaped bottle by Hamada Shinsaku decorated with iron on a two glaze surface enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kake-ai yu Tetsu-e Henko.  On one side a Bonji triad (Sanskrit characters) intimates at Buddhist precepts, while opposite descending fish scales intimate the carp, which becomes a dragon; and a dragon is the guardian of Buddhist doctrine.   
Size, D 21.2 cm   H 26.8  cm  
Condition, Excellent 
Born the second son of H...

A beautiful and elegant work by important female artist Tokumaru Kyoko comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hakuji Ryuhimon Hanaire (White Dragon-skin Vase) and dating to Reiwa 3 nen (2021).
This vase was made by request for our gallery, and there is only two of those in the world...

Once again Abe Anjin has proved his mastery of traditional form with this superb rendition of Momoyama styling. Impurities in the clay mar the surface and pale ash dusts the shoulder with raw clay hints of yellow flash where flame has licked the body. This quality comes from the temperature at which Anjin fires, 200 degrees higher than most Bizen potters. Both comes enclosed in the original wooden box titled Bizen Tokkuri.The tokkuri on the left side, comes enclosed in a black lacquered wood...

Tall and slightly tapering cilindro vase form with my temmoku and partridge feather tetsu-yu glaze

Stoneware and glazes

12.25" x 5.75"