A rectangular moulded vase of stoneware with a short powerful neck. The body of light grey colour splashed with iron and blue glazes.
It comes with fully inscribed and signed storage box tomobako. H. 17 x 7 x 6,5 cm.
Perfect condition.
Made by Kawai Buichi (1908–1989), Kawai Kanjiro’s student and nephew. Buichi’s pieces, like those of his sensei, are unsigned. He began his training as a potter under his uncle in 1928 in Kyoto. In 1949 he joined the National Painter’s Association...
A very beautiful and attractive vase covered with a red, mottled glaze in the shape of a squat bottle with flat but slightly curving sides. Signed Eizo,* a disciple of Kawai Kanjiro. The piece is signed with the artist’s impressed seal in the bottom. Original, inscribed and signed box. H 21,5 x 20 x 12 cm. ca...
Lively wood fired Shino chawan by Kido Sadaaki. This stoneware chawan has a variety of wood fired effects from a thin coating of green ash about the surface to a crusty ash build up on the face of the pot. the bowl form fits well in the hand and the lip undulates enough to get the eye to observe the melted feldspar running into the interior and the deep, rich green pool that punctuates the center...
In excellent condition, this bird-shaped, or “torigata” vase is a beautiful example of Iga pottery from last century. A master of form, material, and technique, the potter Furutani Michio (1946-2000) wrote several books later translated to English on the construction and use of the “anagama”—an earth-dug, wood-fired, small-batch kiln traditionally used in Japan—celebrated for the extraordinary results that often emerge from its fires...
Artist - Andre Masson, French 1896 - 1987
Genre - Modernist, Surrealism, Modern Art
Work - "Aeneas and His Children" Lithograph in color on paper from the "Flight" portfolio / Edition # 185/250
Measurements - Image - 16" x 23", Frame - 19 3/4" x 15 1/2"
Date - 1969 - 70
Signed in pencil
Published by The International Rescue Committee, NY
Excellent condition
Victor Spinski (American, 1940-2013)
A Piece of Cake
Ceramic, Signed and dated: "(19)97"
6 3/4" Diam. x 4" H
Spinski was a leading figure in the avant-garde ceramics movement of the 1960’s and 70’s. Throughout his career, Spinski experimented with many different materials, forms and techniques, becoming most well-known for his tromp l'oeil clay sculptures, which often incorporated humor. In a 1983 article in the New York Times, art historian Helen A...
Finest Kyo-yaki tea bowl with a hand painted golden lobster design by famous Japanese artist Sugita Shohei the 4th...
Chosen karatsu is one kind of Karatsu wares, used iron galze and glaze made from straw ashes. It has carved pattern of shinning sun. it's beautiful the border line that the iron glaze and straw ashes glaze are mixing with each other.
This plate is suitable for not only Japanese cuisine but also western cuisine or desert.
Size : 20.0cm(S) 2.5cm(H)
Madara Karatsu is one kind of Karatsu ware, used glaze made from straw ashes, very simple and sophisticated taste.
It's suitable for western cuisine.
Size : 25.5cm(D) 1.8cm(H)
What a grand statement in clay: Sculptural masterpiece Kurinuki Hagi Chawan by greatest Kaneta Masanao. It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box and a profile of the artist.
This mountainous tea bowl in creamy-white glaze is in mint condition.
Born 1953, Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan,
The eighth-generation Hagi potter, KANETA MASANAO has expanded beyond the tradition of his ancestry to create a more sculptural oeuvre...
Mint and Oni-Hagi masterpiece chawan with notched foot by star potter Seigan Yamane. This extraordinary tea bowl is covered by wonderful different shades of creamy beige on brown pottery. In my opinion it is the one of the most aesthetic chawans 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...
A rare and wonderful sterling ring with shadow box 14k bezel set center carnelian by Arizona metalsmith Kim Rawdin. Kim Rawdin studied painting and art education in college in New York and his interest in jewelry started when he took a job as an art teacher on a Navajo reservation in Arizona. Becoming highly influenced by the beauty of the Arizona landscape, he is also influenced by traditional Japanese haiku and scroll paintings. This ring is a size 5 1/2, is 7/8" long and 3/4" wide...
Whimsical piece by the important Seto potter, Suzuki Norifumi 鈴木紀文 (1940-2006).
Title: Zodiac Vase (Kanshi kabin 干支花瓶)
Medium: glazed stoneware
Size: 7.3 x 14.4 x 7.8 cm
Signature on the piece: Nori 紀
Date: Heisei Period, made in late 1994 for upcoming year of the wild boar (1995)
Condition: Excellent. Minor imperfections from firing. Excess drips of glaze on the bottom ground by potter...
A gohonte plate depicting an umbrella and two maple leaves by famous Kyoto potter Imai Masayuki 今井政之 (1930-2023). He was a versatile potter, excelling in numerous techniques, including colored clay, shino and gohonte. Spots, called gohonte, randomly appear during firing as part of a chemical reaction between the glaze and the heat.
Title: Spotted Plate with Painting of an Umbrella (Gohonte kasanozu sara 御本手傘之図皿)
Stoneware with underglazed cobalt decoration, 3.3 cm...
A stunning pair of sake cups depicting mice by the famous Kutani potter Matsumoto Saiichi 松本佐一 (b. 1930), using his signature technique, porcelain with underglaze gold leaf.
Title: Sake Set (shuki 酒器)
Medium: porcelain with underglaze gold leaf and overglaze enamel
Size: Wider: 3 x 8.4 cm and Taller: 5.98x 5.1 cm
Signature in enamel on the bottom of both pieces: Saiichi (佐一)
Date: Heisei Period, 2007 for 2008
Condition: no flaws: no cracks or repairs...
A playful early work depicting frogs by the famous Kutani potter Matsumoto Saichi 松本佐一 (b. 1930). Vase is porcelain, but the glaze is remarkable, white to gray, with metallic overtone and with overglaze enamel decoration.
Title: Flower Vase (Hanaike 花生)
Medium: porcelain with overglaze enamel
Size: 31.5 x 12.1 cm
Signature in enamel on the bottom of both pieces: Saiichi (佐一)
Date: Shōwa Period, early 1980s
Condition: no flaws: no cracks or repairs; minor imperfections from...
An early work by the important Shino potter Katō Yasukage XIV 14 代加藤康景 (1964-2012), made as Katō Masaharu 加藤正治, a name he used before ascending to a family name in 2001. A twelve petal chrysanthemum is depicted on the lid.
Titled Shino Incense Container (Shino kōgō 志野香合), it is made of glazed stoneware, and is 3.4 x 5.8 x 5.6 cm. An illegible signature is on the bottom of the piece that dates to Heisei Period, mid 1990s. Excellent condition-–no cracks or repairs...
A sake cups bearing character Wild Boar by the famous Bizen potter Fujiwara Kazu 藤原和 (b. 1958).
Simply titled Wild Boar (Inoshishi 亥), the piece is the epitome of Bizen pieces.
It is ash glazed stoneware, 2.9 x 9 cm in size and in perfect condition, without any cracks and repairs, and with only minor imperfections from firing. Comes in original signed box and potter-sealed wrapping cloth. Piece is signed with the stylized character Kazu (和). It was made in late 1994 for the upcoming...
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