A perfect Tetsu-E chawan of highest quality by greatest Shoji Hamada, enclosed in its originally signed wooden box. The chawan has a beautiful tetsu-e brushwork design.
Hamada Shoji (1894 - 1978) was one of the founding fathers of the Studio Pottery movement, who came over to England with his friend, Bernard Leach, to start the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall back in 1920. Like Leach, Hamada did not come from a pottery background but had studied ceramics briefly in Tokyo...
A set of 8 sake cups by members of Sodeisha enclosed in a singular compartmentalized wooden box titled Yose-hai and signed Sodeisha followed by the Sodeisha stamp. Sodeisha (Crawling Through Mud Association) is a group of revolutionary post war ceramic artists whose influence remains strong today. Artists in this set include: Suzuki Osamu, Toba Yoshimasa, Kanaegae Kazutaka, Kawamura Sachiko, Yoshitake Hiromu, Inoue Midori, Nakanishi Kosuke and Tsuji Kanji...
This is surely one of the best chawans of Living National Treasure Tatsuzo Shimaoka. I have rarely seen comparable chawans which such wonderful colors in his art.
It comes with its originall signed and sealed wooden box.
No chips or cracks.
Size: 10,5 cm height x 12 cm in diameter.
Shipping included...
Thick ash colors the surface of this superb chawan by Kawamoto Goro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled hai-yu chawan( Ash glazed tea bowl),
Like encrustations on some Roman glass bottle dredged up from two thousand years of slumber, the glaze is porous and thick.
Size, W 14.2 cm ( 5-1/2 inches) H 8.6 cm ( 3-1/2 inches)
Condition, Excellent
Goro (1919-1986) was born in Seto to a family of potters...
This piece comes off like it has been buried in a volcano, incredible igneous encrustations cover the sides, with molten ash, bidoro, goma, kutsuki and a host of other firing effects all present on its diminutive form. It is by the young artist Tsujimura Kai, enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Hana-ire.
Size, W 12.8 cm ( 5-1/4inches) H 15.2 cm ( 6 inches)
Condition, Excellent
Kai was born in Nara, son of Tsujimura Shiro, in 1976, making him o...
Shadows of flame exhume the granular qualities of the clay on this superb Sekki (unglazed) Bottle by Mihara Ken enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Exquisite, on one side the clay is ash gray, the opposite lively earth tones, and between is an abrupt scorched-land of shadow and color, like that violent moment between awake and sleep.
Size, W 11.6 cm ( 4-1/2 inches) H 16.5 cm ( 6-1/2 inches)
Condition, Excellent
Mihara Ken was born in Shimane prefecture i...
A lobed bottle form vase by Kishimoto Kennin enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seiji Ichiriin Sashi. The surface is fissured like a block of shattered ice the color of a carribean lagoon. About the opening a hint of rust defines the rim. A blue sapphire…
Size, W 11.2 cm ( 4-1/2 inches) H 15.9 cm ( 6-1/4 inches)
Condition, Excellent
Kishimoto Kennin has been working with clay since the 1950s, devouring styles along the way...
Mint Hagi masterpiece chawan by star potter Seigan Yamane. This extraordinary tea bowl is covered by a wonderful color glaze on brown pottery. In my opinion it is the most aesthetic chawan that he made. The seal of the artist is stamped on the bottom.
Seigan Yamane was born in 1952, and started making Hagi ware in 1987. And then, he started his own pottery in 1992 and has ever been awarded a lot of prizes for his great work.
Size: 9,1 cm height x 15 cm in diameter...
A traditional shape called Kinuta (fulling block) draped with ochre glaze over charred blacks by Tsukigata Nahiko wrapped in a brocade bag and enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oni Shino Kinuta Hana-Ike which is in turn enclosed in a black lacquered wooden double-wood storage box. A Kinuta (fulling block) is a small wooden mallet used to beat silk into a soft texture. It is a very traditional shape in Japanese pottery. This is 9 inches (23 cm) tall and in excellent condition...
Bidoro rain down like a glass bead curtain over the terracotta clay of this Shigaraki Tsubo by Takahashi Shunsai enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 8-1/4 inches (20.5 cm) tall and in fine condition...
Nothing I can say can convey the rugged beauty locked up of this Shino chawan, made in 2015, signed and enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Matsuzaki Ken is one of the most important potters of our time.
Ken Matsuzaki was born in Tokyo in 1950 and received a degree in Ceramic Art from Tamagawa University School of Fine Arts, Tokyo. After graduating he moved to Mashiko in 1972 to apprentice with Tatsuzo Shimaoka (who himself had moved to Mashiko to study with Shoji Hamada)...
Something about the pattern on this Kinsai vase by Ono Hakuko screams vintage, like a classic episode of the partridge family. There is a great deal of life about it, some type of inner joy, the gold repetition like the lights reflecting off a mirrored ball. It comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yuri-Kinsai Hana-tate.
Size, W 8.5 cm ( 3-1/2 inches) H 24.0 cm ( 9-1/2 inches)
Condition, Excellent
From Aichi prefecture, Hakuko was trained by h...
Dawn breaks over snow laden boulders, the shadows waxing lavender on this spectacular incense burner by Kaneta Masanao enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi Haku-yu Kamahen Kurinuki Koro. This style of digging the work out of the clay rather than forming the clay on a wheel has been a signature of this artists work for more than two decades...
These expressive forms utilize the clays natural textures to bring out the depths of the oribe green, and electric shimmers of blue flash on the surface in random patterns like heat lightning. This sake set was created by the very popular and hard to find Higashida Shigemasa and come enclosed in their original signed wooden boxes titled Oribe Tokkuri and Guinomi respectively.
Size, The Tokkuri: is W 9.5 cm ( 3-3/4 inches) H 14.6 cm (5-3/4 inches)
Size, Guinomi: is W 5.2 ...
A single bead of green glass hangs like an emerald earring from the “mimi” on this Shigaraki vase by Takahashi Shunsai enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 10 inches (26 cm) tall and in fine condition.
Born in 1927, the second son of renowned potter Takahashi Rakusai III in Shigaraki, Takahashi Shunsai left home to study under Taniguchi Ryosai in Kyoto before returning to Shigaraki to pursue his studies of Shigaraki styles specifically under his father and spent the bett...
Guinomi creates a very organic feel. The bulbous form, like some tuber or bulb found in nature, a sake-flower bulb, shows scars where kutsuki (other items) have fused to it in the heat of the conflagration. Allow this bulb to grow to fruition, blossoming into a shared night of conversation and company or a quiet night of music and moonlight…
Size, The Tokkuri: is W 10.2 cm ( 4 inches) H 13.6 cm (5-1/2 inches)
Size, Guinomi: is W 7.7 cm ( 3-1/4 inches) H 5.5 cm ...
Once again Abe Anjin has proved his mastery of traditional form with this superb rendition of Momoyama styling enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Hanaire,signed on base as well inside the vase. Ashen gray climbs up the side while flying ash settles down about the rim. The Momoyama was an era of constant battle and striking aesthetic innovation. And like an old Samurai, scars mar the surface like campaign medals, while the shadows of other pots, like ghosts from the kiln,...
A faceted bowl by Hamada Shinsaku exhibiting the superb sense of design to be expected of this illustrious lineage enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shio-yu Tetsu Sabi Mentori Chawan (Salt Glazed Iron Faceted Tea Bowl). The form is very much in the Mingei taste, A beautifully turned wan-gata with thick walls which have been sliced away, creating an architectural quality. To this is added a dusting of salt which textures the surface. Like many great bowls it must be held to ...
