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
Saffron glazed water jar, covered jar, mizusashi with combed, kushime decoration in slip under the glaze which has run to create long partridge feather tendrils around the base of the pot. There are three gold lacquer dot additions around the form.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
8" x 6.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Cylindrical form Oribe water jar, mizusashi with a stamped band of decoration around the pot.
Stoneware and glaze
8" x 6.10
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large wan-gata form saffron glazed neriage teabowl with vivid pattern and mossy glaze effects.
Stoneware and glazes
5.75" X 4.10"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Compact ovoid tabi-chawan style teabowl glazed in my tetsu0yu and temmoku glazes creating partridge feather style effects and finished with a hand cut foot to compliment the form.
Stoneware and glazes
5" X 4.6" x 3.6"
Functional, decorative and food safe
No words can describe these two incredible vases by Koyama Kiyoko, signed on the base and enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden boxes. Kiyoko, born 1936 started as a painter who drew designs on pottery. Today, she is considered one of the leading Shigaraki potters both nationally and internationally...
Wood-fired Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Black Glaze, with areas appearing ochre and gold. Two finger marks remain where the bowl was glaze-dipped. Stamped with artist's mark. H. 3.25"(8.25cm) x Dia. 5.75"(14.5cm.)
John Benn studied with F. Carleton Ball and Ken Stevens at the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and with Howard Shapiro and Sandra Simon in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, he built his first wood kiln...
Wood-fired Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Black Glaze, with areas appearing ochre and gold. H. 3.25"(8.25cm) x Dia. 5.875"(15cm.)
John Benn studied with F. Carleton Ball and Ken Stevens at the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and with Howard Shapiro and Sandra Simon in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, he built his first wood kiln...
Wood-fired Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Shino Glaze over Ame Glaze. Four finger marks remain where the bowl was glaze-dipped. Stamped with artist's mark. H. 3.125"(8cm) x Dia. 5.00"(12.5cm.)
John Benn studied with F. Carleton Ball and Ken Stevens at the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and with Howard Shapiro and Sandra Simon in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, he built his first wood kiln...
Wood-fired Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Black Glaze, with areas appearing ochre and gold. Two finger marks remain where the bowl was glaze-dipped. Stamped with artist's mark. H. 3.25"(8.25cm) x Dia. 4.625"(11.75cm.)
John Benn studied with F. Carleton Ball and Ken Stevens at the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and with Howard Shapiro and Sandra Simon in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, he built his first wood kiln...
Wood-fired Tokkuri, Sake Decanter, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Natural Ash Glaze...
Fissured Jar, Wood-Fired, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Natural Clay, & Natural Ash Glazing caused by 3 days of Wood-firing in the fire box of George's Anagama Kiln in 2005. A large fissure had occurred in firing which turned out to be a serendipitous accident. H. 15"(38cm) x Dia. 11.5"(29cm.) The beauty of this piece is dynamic in depicting the force of the kiln fire, yet still quiet in its naturalness. It is truly a one-of-kind piece that demonstrates the spirit of Zen. It can stand alone ...
Hotei-san (Chinese=Budai) Ceramic Sculpture by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H. 11.25"(28.5cm) x W. 12"(30.5cm.) Hotei-san is glazed in white and sculpted in sitting meditation pose, holding his prayer beads. Hotei is known as a God of Happiness and Contentment. In Japanese folklore, Hotei-san is one of the Seven Lucky Gods (Shichifukujin.) In China, legend has it that he was an eccentric Chan (Zen) monk who lived in the early 10th C. Some Buddhist traditions consider him an incarnation of ...
Tokkuri (Sake Decanter) or Kabin (Vase) bu John Miller; Portland, OR. Temmoku & Nuka glazes, Iron Slip. H.5.25"(13.25cm) x Dia.3.375"(8.5cm.)John Salgir Miller was born in Elmira, NY, in 1974 and earned his BFA in ceramics and illiustration from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has been inspired the mingei aesthetic and by the work of Shoji Hamada since he began studying ceramics in high school. While at Mass Art studying under Ben Ryterband (who spent time studying pottery in Japa...
A fine Tokkuri by the greatest Shigaraki Legend Tsujimura Shiro. It is enclosed in the original signed wooden box.
Shiro was born in Nara in 1947, likely needs no introduction, certainly one of Japans most well known potters, he has been displayed both nationally and internationally innumerable times.
Tsujimura Shiro first became interested in pottery while studying to be a painter in Tokyo. He rejected the notion of apprenticing with an established master or attending art s...
Large Oribe influenced vase with trumpet style flared neck and mouth and incised around the shoulder of the body of the piece. The neck is flanked by two coiled style ring knobs.
Stoneware and glazes
15.5" x 8"
Only one of a kind - fantastic kuro bizen tokkuri with unusual form by famous potter Masao Akiye.
He was born in Saitama near Tokyo in 1968.
After he studied in the Tokyo Institute and Art University, he began his career as a 'professional' Bizen potter in the kiln in Bizen City.
After having studied under Isezaki Jun, Bizen Living National Treasure for 10 years, he founded his anagama kiln in 2008.
His work won already many important awards, the Tanabe-Mus...
Large Oribe glazed tsubo with hakeme slip decoration and a broad, flared lip.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
11.5" x 8.5"
