Massive natural ash glazed Shigaraki flower vase made by veteran potter Takahashi Shunsai (1927-2011).
Takahashi Shunsai 高橋春斎 is the second child of Takahashi Rakusai III...
Carved Stoneware Demon Bowl made by internationally acknowledged muralist Fujiwara Ikuzo (b. 1946).
Size
Height 10cm
Width 15cm
In excellent condition
Supplied with signed wooden box and leaflet.
Born in Osaka, Ikuzo Fujiwara completed his education in the Japanese Painting department at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1970. He had the privilege of studying under Kawai Tadashi in Kyoto...
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Contemporary white porcelain jar by Lee Yong-soon (b.1957, Korea), with his unique interpretation for the ancient jars of the Joseon dynasty, approx. D 17 x H 17cm (6.69 x 6.69in)...
A playful troupe of elephants parade around the rim of this early bowl by Shigemori Yoko enclosed in a signed wooden box titled Zobachi. The creatures are in relief, raised from the surface, not engraved into it. This was made by pressing the clay slab onto a surface into which were engraved the family of creatures. It is roughly 13cm 12.7 cm (over 5 inches) diameter, 6 cm (2-1/4 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Shigemori Yoko (1953-2021) was born in Kagoshima...
This is the second tea bowl in our collection made by first class potter Kingyoku Nakata. It was made around 1980. A plum tree is hand-painted on the bowl. It is in mint condition with no chips or cracks.
It is well known that his works were brought by the Showa Emperor and the Prime Minister as hospitality gifts to a lot of European Presidents in 1983.
It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box.
Kingyoku Nakata was born in 1945...
Modern and artistic Hasami Tea Bowl by Akitoshi Kurosaki (born 1969). Brown clay is coated with colorful and shiny glazes, which make this bowl to a unique piece of art.
Hasami ware (波佐 見 焼, Hasami-yaki) is a Japanese pottery traditionally from Hasami in Nagasaki Prefecture with a 400-year history...
Mint and large Japanese pottery tea bowl of Hagi Ware, made by one of the most famous and creative potters of Japan, Seigan Yamane. Light brown clay is coated with colorful glazes.
Note: This is a special work by him. He made only one piece with this design.
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...
Rich gosu blue glaze covers this stoneware chawan with three areas of lyrical slip trailed decoration around the bowl. Made by the great-grandson of Kawai Kanjiro, this chawan by Kawai Sota is an excellent example of his work and the current direction of the Kawai-mon now approaching a century of tradition...
A rare Buddhist Zeze tea bowl by great Seki Omo with hand painted Shinto Shrine Ema and votive picture tablets, enclosed in the originally signed and sealed wooden box. This rare work of Seko was made 30 years ago.
Zeze ware has been considered to be one of the Enshu Shichiyo, the seven best kilns selected by Enshu Kobori (1579-1647) who was a master of tea ceremony and also a military commander in the early Edo period...
Large bottle shaped vase by Cynthia Bringle (American, born 1939). In excellent condition. Signed "Bringle" on the bottom. 10 1/2" high. Artist and ceramicist Cynthia Bringle has lived and worked in Penland North Carolina, where she has her studio and gallery, since 1970. Her works are in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Mint Museum in Charlotte NC, etc.
This sake cup is made as a miniature of red raku chawan made by Honami Koetsu in 17th century.
YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkIc18gBIkk
Size: 6.7cm(D)5.3cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by artist
Eiraku Zengoro XVI Sokuzen (1917-1998) Double Gourd Vase with excellent red glaze...
The great master Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging to various kinds of pottery, Iga, Shigaraki, Raku, Ido, Kohiki, Shino, Oribe, Kiseto so on, And he has accomplished Celadon works. This piece has abstract pattern with copper glaze under the celadon glaze.
Size: 9.3cm(D) 3.0cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist.
The great master Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging to various kinds of pottery, Iga, Shigaraki, Raku, Ido, Kohiki, Shino, Oribe, Kiseto so on, And he has accomplished Celadon works. This piece has abstract pattern with copper glaze under the celadon glaze.
Size: 9.0cm(D) 3.0cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist.
The great master Sadamitsu Sugimoto has been challenging to various kinds of pottery, Iga, Shigaraki, Raku, Ido, Kohiki, Shino, Oribe, Kiseto so on, And he has accomplished Celadon works. This piece has abstract pattern with copper glaze under the celadon glaze.
Size: 9.3cm(D) 3.0cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist.
This piece is made of copper glaze called "oribe". At first , it is covered with feldspar and painted with iron and next it is covered with copper glaze. It is firing into burning charcoal in the kiln, so there are complicated atmosphere, oxidation and reduction.
The oxidation atmosphere makes the copper glaze red, the reduction atmosphere makes it green and the mixture atmosphere makes complicated color.
Size 6.0 cm (D) 5.7cm (H)
Accessary : wooden box signed by the potter.
This sake cup is a very rare piece among Sugimoto's works.
Ordinary, shigaraki pieces are fired in the anagama fire woods kiln, however this pieces is carved and colored with pigment, And fired in the kiln with charcoal. The pattern is called "shikishi kasane" a pair of square piece of fancy papers. It's a happy theme. The white grains are feldspar included in shigaraki clay.
Size:6.2cm(D) 5.6cm(H)
Accessary: wooden box signed by the artist
This piece was fired for 10 days in the "anagama" old style kiln, with red pine fire woods. It's very beautiful with natural glaze by ashes and flame.
Size; 6.0cm(D)/4.5cm(H)
Accessary; wooden box signed by artist
