Japanese 20th century silver bowl. This contemporary designed bowl was made by Living National Treasure artist, SEKIYA SHIRO. The bowl is signed SHIRO on the bottom. It measures 11 1/2" in diameter and 2 1/2" tall. The bowl comes with TOMOBAKO or original artist signed wooden storage box.

A perfect example that captures both of those two important artist mastery of celadon glazing and they innovative symmetry of flowing lines and fluted points.  The silhouette is ethereal, harkening back to the clean elegant lines of Song pottery and the pirouetting lines of Alphonse Mucha and Art-nouveau.  The glaze lays perfectly mirror like on the body, like a green ocean without a breath of wind. 
Size,(Chaire) D 8.6 cm   H 5.2  cm  ( SOLD )
Size,(Koro) D 9.9 cm   H 13...

A mouse kogo by famous Kyoto potter Imai Masayuki 今井政之 (1930-2023). He used his famous inlaid colored clay technique in producing this piece. Imai Masayuki and late Miyashita Zenji are considered the two masters of the colored clay technique in Japan...

A playful Dragon descends to this genuine stone base, a sculpture perfect for the coming year of the Dragon by popular contemporary artist Sugitani Keizo. 28 x 24 x 20 cm (11 x 9-1/2 x 8 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist. The creature floats slightly over the stone base on a copper stud set into the stone. It comes accompanied by a signed certificate, directly from the artist.
Sugitani Keizo was born in Osaka in 1959...

This is an important painting in Korean art history. It was featured as the very first illustration, Plate Number 1, in the catalogue of the historic Korean Cultural Service exhibition, Coloring Time, the first exhibition ever to cover the history of Korean art in America. This is Dragon in the Fog, painted in 1997 by Renowned Korean Artist Don Ahn aka Ahn Dong Kuk (1937 - 2013). Don Ahn was a pioneer of Korean art in America...

An unusual vase with rough, pebble textured pink glaze over scratched in cranes by one of Japans most important post-war artists, Shinkai Kanzan, enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The shape and the design are exactly what we would expect from Kanzan, the coloring going even a step beyond. The texture is like unpolished jewels, the inside of a geode; very pleasing to the hands. The vase is 20.5 cm (8 inches) tall, 18 cm (7inches) diameter and in prefect condition...

Something about the pattern on this Kinsai vase by Ono Hakuko screams vintage, like a classic episode of the partridge family.  There is a great deal of life about it, some type of inner joy, the gold repetition like the lights reflecting off a mirrored ball.  It comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yuri-Kinsai Hana-tate. 
Size, W 8.5  cm ( 3-1/2 inches)  H 24.0  cm ( 9-1/2 inches) 
Condition, Excellent 
From Aichi prefecture, Hakuko was trained by h...

One of the most beautiful pieces I have ever seen by this pioneering Shino artist, a spectacular Mizusahi by Okabe Mineo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled E-shino Mizusashi. It is 17 cm (6-3/4 inches) diameter, 16 cm (6-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Okabe Mineo (1919-1990) was born the first son of important artist Kato Tokuro, however the relationship with his father was volatile...

Mukoyama Fumiya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Zogan Yusai Fusha-mon Tsubo (Color Inlayed Wind Mill Pattern Tsubo). It is 25 cm (10 inches) diameter, 22 cm (8-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition. Mukoyama Fumiya was born in Tokyo in 1960, graduating the Kyoto Ceramic Research institute before apprenticing in Hagi under 15th generation Sakakura Shinbei in 1984. He spent time in Shiga before settling in Mashiko in 1990, establishing his own kiln in 1993...

Brilliant colors gleam on the meteoric surface of this crystalline form in rich natural oxidation by Hashimoto Tomonari enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 22 x 28 x 26 cm (9 x 11 x 10-1/4 inches) and in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Hashimoto Tomonari was born the son of a sculptor and has felt comfortable with the processes of creation since childhood...

A breathtaking sculpture by Hashimoto Tomonari enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The inverted cone is dark gray with rust red and blue patterns waving across the surface like gas clouds on some distant moon. It is 46 cm (18 inches) tall, 19 cm (7-1/2 inches) diameter and in excellent condition, directly from the artist this winter. The wooden box is titled: Untitled. In fact he does not title any of his work now, preferring to leave interpretation up to the viewer...

This remarkable tea bowl is from the kilns of Yoshida Shuen (1940-1987)—an apprentice of Miwa Kyusetsu (1910-2012) who was awarded the status of Living National Treasure in 1983. It features a milky translucent glaze somewhat resembling coral, with a few small portions of the foot of the tea bowl exposed, displaying the reddish coarse clay that this piece is fashioned from.

Hagi-yaki has a tradition stretching back over 400 years and is a high-fired stoneware type of pottery...

Black white green and silver bands like a core sample of crustal layers from some fantastic planet decorate the brushed and impressed clay around the Mt. Fuji like cone of this iconic form by Morino Taimei enclosed in the original signed wooden box...

A very cheerful piece for late summer tea from the kiln of modern pottery master Kishimoto Kennin enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Ki-Seto Chawan...

If you have heard of Murakoshi Takuma, and his spectacular wood fired contemporary Shigaraki ware this would be the piece to have. Takuma's works have taken the japanese modern pottery world by storm and you can see why. Hand crushed feldspar glazes make it look like the gods and wind created this masterpiece. 40cm tall x 33cm in diameter. With signed box. Great condition. Ask for shipping quote.

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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 20.5 x H 18.5cm (8.07 x 7.28in). Besides, two more different size of his moon jars are listed at the same time, and each one is attached with his autograph certification (in Korean) with his own signature and seal.


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Won Ju Seo's exhibition is featured in the December 3, 2015 New York Times, and she is featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Fiber Art Now, and in the recently-published McGraw-Hill fine arts textbook, Art Talk. The work offered here is Fragmented Memories by Won Ju Seo. This beautiful work of art was is in the recently-published McGraw-Hill fine arts textbook, Art Talk. Plexiglass box frame: 25 x 23.75 inches, 63.5 x 60.5 cm; Textile: 23 x 22 inches, 58.5 x 56 cm. Hand made with Korean silk, org...

Turquoise accumulates in the clefts like tourmaline water in the deep basin of this sculptural vessel by Yamaguchi Mio dating from 2021. It is 31 cm (12 inches) diameter, 28 cm (11 inches) tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Yamaguchi Mio was born in Aichi prefecture in 1992, and graduated advanced studies at the Aichi University of Education in 2017. While still at university, her works were selected for show at the JoryuTogei Ten Female Ceramic Artist Association...