This multi-color paper cut-out of bamboo is 8 ½” wide and 15” long; with mat is 14” wide and 21” long. It is designed and made by Pi-Ping Savage. The signature on the bottom right uses her Chinese name. Please read the more detailed information about Chinese paper cut-outs and her work. The calligraphy means “Though a bamboo may look as humble as a deep valley, it has its own determination in its heart”...

Wonderful hakuji glazed guinomi with "mikomi" and a faceted, mentori kodai foot. Very much in the style of Ishiguro Munemaro.

Excellent condition with signed box and measures 2.7" X 1.5"

An original all sterling sculptural pendant hand wrought, forged in a USA studio and signed with this metal artist's mark as: Sterling - Handmade - Mimi Dee.

What makes most of this metal worker's pieces unusual is that, as in this case, one continuous piece of precious thick 14 gauge silver without cutting or soldering is used to make this "one of" piece...

Japanese 20th century art glass vase by master glass artist, HISATOSHI IWATA. The beautiful handblown vase is done in a spotted purple and white with gold is entitled KAYOU, or "Brilliant Light". Hisatoshi Iwata was born in Tokyo in 1925 and he died in 1994. He graduated from the prestigious Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1950. He has participated in all the major exhibitions in Japan. His works of art on part of the collections at the Corning Glass Museum and the Metropolitan...

Set of Four Wood-Fired Cups by Kim Young Mi. Dimensions of the largest cup: 6 inches wide x 3 inches high, (15cm wide x 7.5 cm high).

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"

Large temmoku and haiyu ash glazed kinuta mallet vase with lobed indents around the body of the vase. The ash glaze streaks and runs down the vase neck and boils in activity on the shoulder

Stoneware and glazes

13.75" X 6.25

Robust covered cap jar in a deep temmoku glaze with a band of my medieval green over a kushime combed slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

11.25" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Low and wide chawan with temmoku and haiyu ash glaze over a kushime combed decoration. This bowl is very influenced by the famous Momoyama Shino chawan Mine(no)Momiji

Stoneware, slip and glazes

6.25" X 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

B&W terra cotta slipware covered jar with decoration inspired by ancient Greek ionic columns

Terra cotta, slips and glaze

9.5" X 7.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Made in a USA studio, an art infused metal work sculptural bold, hand wrought by and signed by the metal work jewelry artist as: Mimi Dee - Handmade.
The metalwork copper hammer textured bold adjustable 1 3/4" knuckle to knuckle ring (+/- 7) is placed in a signed same hand painted presentation box, making this a more desirable studio collectible.

Lapis lazuli beads and a bronze biwa stick pearl from faraway lands complement the untreated copper, which will patinate naturally...

Gold luster decorated travelers style teabowls, tabi-chawan, each with the "grasses" motif running around the bowl

Temmoku teabowl (#4153/left) measures 4.25" X 4.25" and is stoneware with glaze

Porcelain glazed teabowl (#4154/right) measures 4.4" X 4.1" and is porcelain and glaze

Functional, decorative and food safe

Temmoku glazed travelers style tabi-chawan with sukashi decoration of "grasses" pattern in a stone texture (ishime-ji) making for a very tactile piece

Stoneware, engobe and glaze

4.5" X 4.35"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Temmoku glazed covered cap jar with repeated impressed designs around the body of the full jar

Stoneware and glaze

10" X 7.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust medieval green mallet form (kinuta) vase with hakeme slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

10.5" X 5.65"

Temmoku and medieval green glazed bowl with altered lip and impressed devices around the bowl

Stoneware and glazes

10" X 5.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Traditional style jug or pitcher with deep rich temmoku glaze and impressed waffle designs as a repeated motif

Stoneware and glaze

11" X 6.8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Seo Byung Ho was the recipient of the top prize in the 2009 World Ceramic Biennale, the highest paid ceramic art prize in the world. With this lovely pair of sculptural vases, Seo has combined the shape of a traditional vessel with the form of a fish, a symbol of eternal vigilance because the fish never closes its eyes. For the same reason, the fish is also a symbol of diligence that has long been a source of inspiration for Korean scholars, and is a common motif employed in scholar's implements...