All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1980 item #1458697 (stock #0534)

Finest Kyo-yaki tea bowl with a hand painted golden lobster design by famous Japanese artist Sugita Shohei the 4th...

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1980 item #1388422 (stock #0439)
Momoyama Gallery
$4,500.00

A true Mashiko Chawan by greatest Shoji Hamada with a real beautiful Ameyu glaze, double boxed and originally signed and sealed by the artist.

This treasure was part of the exhibition "The artists who searched for Mingei".

Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) was one of the leading potters of the Japanese Mingei (Folk Craft) movement...

All Items : Artists : Glass : Functional : Pre 1980 item #436216
Juicy color and fun form in contemporary glass. Both odd and elegant, paladin vases feature a contrasting color at the mouth. These are brilliant in groups, and tasty on their own.

Studio Paran is the creative partnership of Richard Jones and Mark Lorenzi. They met in the glass shop of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Studio Paran strives to design work that is unique, affordable and relevant...

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1980 item #1349100 (stock #10908)
Large, relatively tall chawan, as used in the tea ceremony. Light brown coarse stoneware covered with a celadon colored translucent glaze with brown speckles and with a purple and blue-green splash on the front. Unsigned...
All Items : Artists : Metalwork : Pre 1980 item #1368445 (stock #B2U-07)
Japanese 20th century bronze vase with abstract leaf design by TSUDA JOYO. The vase measures 16" tall by 6 5/8" in diameter.
All Items : Artists : Metalwork : Pre 1980 item #977971 (stock #U-2597)
Japanese Mid - Late 20th century bronze vase with crane design by NEYA CHUROKU (1897-1987). The vase has a standing crane holding its head and neck up on the front and a crane bending down in the back. The bottom has the Churoku mark. Neya Churoku, a student of Tsuda Shinobu, exhibited at many exhibitions including the 1933 World Exhibition in Chicago and the 15th Teiten (1934) where he won the Tokusen (grand prize). Comes with TOMOBAKO, original artist signed wooden storage box...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1980 item #1470654 (stock #TRC221203)


Although reports vary, it is generally thought that Zeze-yaki had its heyday in the late Momoyama to early Edo period under the influence and patronage of legendary artists/ men of tea, Honami Koetsu and Kobori Enshu. It was also counted among the seven best kilns selected by Enshu Kobori (1579-1647), a tea master and military commander of that era. In the mid-1600s the tradition died out for a time after the destruction of the kiln by fire...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Jars : Pre 1980 item #1464127 (stock #11067)
Jug for holding fresh water for the tea ceremony, called mizusashi. Wheel thrown, thin stoneware of slightly irregular beaker shape (slightly bulging belly towards the bottom and straight sides going up). The mouth is slightly oval. Black-brown iridescent glaze. Custom made black lacquered fitted wooden cover. Seto ware, or black Oribe...
All Items : Artists : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1191431
Maki not only did Large red kanji on black backgrounds, which I have denominated Big Reds.He also did Big Yellows, as in this dramatic print Poem 71-7 (Mind). Size: 32.6 x 17.2in/83 x 44cm. For comparison, I've also included Poem 68-71 (Mind). It is in frame 8.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1980 item #1472855
A tea bowl with stunning glaze by the legendary Miyashita Zenji 宮下善爾 (1939-2012), one of the greatest contemporary Kyoto potters. This is an early work, when he focused on celadon-like glazes. At that time he was studying ancient Chinese pieces, and was influenced by his father who excelled in celadon. His tea bowls are not common, and purple ones are quite rare. Piece is simply titled Tea Bowl (Chawan 茶碗), it is glazed stoneware, from Shōwa Period, late 1970...
All Items : Artists : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1199328
Zentner Collection
$9,000.00
Mayumi Oda. b. 1941 in Tokyo. "Chant of the Ocean Nautiles" and "Chant of the Ocean Conce" two complimenting artist proofs woodblock prints with gold and white ink printed in black paper. 17.5 x 25.5 inches and 29.25 x 42 inches with frame. No condition problems to note. According to her own biography Mayumi Oda is known to many as the ‘Matisse of Japan’, Mayumi Oda has done extensive work with female goddess imagery...
All Items : Artists : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1130265
Two dragon year prints, in very very good condition,embossed blue, done in 1976, a year of the dragon. Haku Maki's dragon prints have nicely flowing kanji script We suspect he may have used the same mixed media implements to produce both prints. The blue one is 37/150. we have only seen one copy of each print: they must have all been snapped up by Year of the Dragon folk.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 1980 item #1478648
Charming fresh water container (Mizusashi) by Oshio Shōzan III 三代 大塩昭山 (b. 1935), an important potter working in Akahada ware that is produced in Nara Prefecture. Akahada potters are famous for tea ceremony wares...
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 1980 item #1456938
Ceramics decorated by Zen monks are seldom seen and this piece is no exception. Two red enamel characters are boldly brushed in red enamel conveying the strong bond between Zen and the tea ceremony. The bowl is inscribed and named Taste of Zen (Zenmi 禅味), and dates to the 1970s, when Seki Bokuō 関牧翁 (1903 – 1991) was well into his abbotship at Tenryū-ji, one of most important, and certainly most beautiful temples in Kyoto. The bowl itself is by the well-known hagi potter, Hara Kiyok...
All Items : Artists : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1437193 (stock #577)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
A beautiful city view of Brussels in watercolor and gouache by artist SARNOFF measures. 8x8.5” , frame size 20x21”
All Items : Artists : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1326537
A very fine Original Acrylic Painting by famed Thai Artist Hatthai Bunnag, depicting Busaba being secretively seduced by Inau in a temple, accompanied by her trustworthy servants. Signed and dated bottom left 25.04. 2524 (Buddhist Year). Size framed 58 cm. x 50 cm. Excellent condition.
All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Porcelain : Pre 1980 item #1307519 (stock #4338)
A striking porcelain double gourd vase by the eminent Kutani potter Matsumoto Saichi V The tall shape has four raised ribs on the matt buff/white glazed body, the bottom gourd boldly painted with sets of green stripes on a tan ground. The buff/white glaze is curious, on close inspection it looks like crushed oyster shell. Signed on the base. The vase comes with its original signed and inscribed box.

Approximately 31.7 cm high. The vase and box are both perfect.

Matsumoto Saich...

All Items : Artists : Glass : Functional : Pre 1980 item #1484939 (stock #00241-2023)
Modern 2.0
$800.00
Offered is an early signed and dated 1977 hand-blown studio glass perfume bottle. The bottle has two polished windows, which reveal a pale amber chamber encased in swirling multi-colored and black glass with a black glass stopper. The bottle is 5 ½ " tall, including the dauber, by 4" wide. It is in very good condition, with one very minor flea bit and no other scratches, chips, scuffs, or repairs noted. The bottle is signed and dated on the bottom, as shown. Born in 1950, William Carlson crea...