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...

Rich, dark temmoku teapot with cap lid and impressed decoration around the body together with two stem style teacups

Stoneware and glazes

Max. 9.75" x 7.5", teacups approx. 3.75" X 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Take-sugata, bamboo formed chawan with haiyu ash glaze over the ridged and stamped form

Porcelain and glazes

4.75" x 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Volumous temmoku covered jar with three rings around the circumference of the piece with impressed stamp decoration. Picture #5 shows the actual color and quality of the glaze very well

Stoneware and glaze

10.5" X 8.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large size, generous, guinomi with stamped decoration at four point making excellent finger indents glazed in a rich Oribe glaze

Stoneware and glaze

3" X 3.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Amber and haiyu glazed yunomi with hakeme decoration on the exterior

Stoneware, slip and glazes

3.25" X 3.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large teabowl with medieval green, Fujina style, glaze over hakeme with kamon diamonds around the piece

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.6" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Medieval green glazed hakeme slipware covered jar, or mizusashi with kamon diamonds at four points around the piece

Stoneware, slips and glazes

8.8" X 6.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Maru-wan style teabowl with Ao glaze over a black and white "grasses" pattern

Stoneware, slips and glazes

4.75" X 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich rozome style designs wrapped around the jug under a Fujina influenced medieval green glaze. This glaze is very reminiscent of Old English or Fujina lead glazes without any lead!

Stoneware, slips and glazes

10.2" X 6.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Tall thrown and squared vase form with kushime/combed slip decoration under a "Galena" style glaze with trace accents of my finger prints in the glaze (though galena inspired, this and all of my glazes are lead free)

Stoneware, slip and glazes

12" X 4.25" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust stamped capjar with an overall keyfret style design under an Ao glaze and the lid and foot in clear glaze accents

Stoneware and glazes

10.5" X 6.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Kushime, combed mizusashi and chawan set in a rich Ao glaze with clear accents

Stoneware, slip and glazes

Mizusashi 6.75" X 6.4"

Chawan 4" X 5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Ao glazed cap jar with "Orbis", rings design

Stoneware, slips and glazes

8.25" X 8.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large and broad pillar form covered jar with hakeme decoration under a clear glaze and zen inspired splashes of rich Ao blue glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

12" X 8.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large cylindrical vase with vivid impressed wood texture and glazed in my Ao glaze

Stoneware and glazes

11" X 6"

White slipped bottle vase with combed vertical design and splashed of Ao glaze on either side. This may be used as a larger tokkuri or as a vase

Stoneware, slip and glazes

10.5" X 5.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Oribe glazed small plate or wall bowl (it can be hung on the wall if desired) with a lustrous green glaze and plum flowers under a clear glaze

Stoneware, slips and glazes

10.25" X 2.8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich ao glazed teabowl with an etched "grasses" pattern into the porcelain body and then glazed

Porcelain and glazes

4.65" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Fujina style glazed chawan of an etched bamboo groove design directly into the porcelain and then glazed. This style of glaze almost has the appearance of ancient Tang style ceramics

Porcelain and glazes

4.3" X 4.4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Tony Papp post modernist sterling silver/gold wash, brooch.

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Lyrical blue and white teabowl with a droozy rich blue decoration representing Sengai's Universe from his Zen parable and zenga. The circle/square/triangle is repeated twice around the apex of the chawan

Porcelain, underglaze gosu blue and glaze

5.25" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large and robust porcelain chawan with a tataki (paddled) style netting design around the bowl and richly glazed in Ao and clear.

Porcelain and glazes

5.6" X 3.85"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large hakeme (hakame) decorated covered jar with a medieval green splash on the front, back and lid

Stoneware, slip and glazes

13.5" X 7.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Lustrous green Oribe glazed chawan over a combed "breaking waves" pattern highlighted with an underglaze wash of purple-brown

Stoneware, slip, wash and glaze

5.5" X 3.85"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Generous medieval galena style yunomi, teacup with a rich galena style glaze over an incised "intersection" design. Though galena influenced, this is a lead free glaze!

Stoneware and glazes

4.5" X 3.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust medieval style jug with impressed design under an Ao-glaze with frogskin qualities, great as a jug or vase

Stoneware and glazes

10.5" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust terra cotta teabowl with black and white combed slip

Terra cotta, slips and glaze

5" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Oribe glazed covered box forms, each resting on three feet cut from the footring.

#1 measures 4.75" X 4.75" and has an over all repeat pattern resembling farm fields from an aerial view

#2 measures 4.5" X 5.25" and has two different impressed medallion designs used originally in medieval pottery

Stoneware and traditional Oribe glaze

Rich Oribe influenced mizusashi with hakeme (hakame) and impressed design. In the firing, the glaze ran off the pot to form a dragonfly eye style drip. The drip makes the pot a bit uneven, but I could not bring myself to grind off the drip. The foot can easily be stabilized with the addition of two felt pads

Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze

5.75" X 8.6"

Medieval influenced cap jar with a rich galena style glaze over a medallion repeat design. Though galena influenced, this is a lead free glaze!

Stoneware and glazes

8.5" X 6.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Oribe and temmoku glazed lobed vase with impressed medallion within each section. The footring has an small area where glaze ran

Stoneware and glazes 9.25" X 6"

Robust hakeme (hakame) vase with a bold, expressionist style glaze splash inspired by the bold "ink traces" of Nantembo the famous Zen calligrapher

Stoneware, slip and glazes

7.7" X 6.75"

Modernist style tokkuri, sake bottle with Ao and clear glaze over brushed slip.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

7" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich glazed hakeme (hakame) waisted vase with lustrous Oribe glaze on the exterior and complex temmoku on the interior

Stoneware, slip and glazes

10" X 6"

Ao glazed, thrown and altered vase form with panels of Shono rain pattern

Stoneware, slip and glazes

8.25" X 7.5" at it's widest

Large ovoid baker form glazed in a classical Oribe pattern of "mon" gate devices. Thrown and altered with applied lug handles

Stoneware, slips and glazes

15.75" X 5.75" X 5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich temmoku glazed vase form with archaic inspired impressed decoration around the body

Stoneware and glaze

8.25" X 6"

Thrown and altered flask vase with a rich Oribe glaze over a stylized Enso

Stoneware and glazes

9.5" X 7" X 5.5"

Ao glazed wide footed teabowl, chawan form, with a Shono pattern around the bowl

Stoneware, slip and glazes

4.75" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Medieval influenced jug with repeated impressed design around the apex of the jug with a further stamp at the base of the rounded handle. Though this glaze simulates "galena" glazes, it is lead free and food safe!

Stoneware and glazes

8" X 6.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Bulbous vase form with grasses repeat design under a rich Ao glaze

Stoneware, slips and glazes

6.75" X 6"

Waisted style yunomi glazed in a rich Oribe style glaze; the left yunomi with impressed designs around and the right yunomi with underglaze "walking spirals" designs

Stoneware, slips and glazes

Each approximately 4.25" X 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large banded teabowl in rich Oribe and temmoku glazes in a Strata pattern

Stoneware and glazes

6" X 3.65"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Made in America. Heart, face, couple motif copper and sterling silver pendant earrings set finished with lover's gemstones of garnet and rose quartz. All metal completely hand fabricated and hammered in a USA studio by and signed: Handmade - Mimi Dee - Sterling.

The hand hammered pendant can be worn on your own omega, neckcuff, chain, cord or beads. The hand formed ear hooks are stamped and signed...

Lidded storage jar with ameyu, amber glaze and a copper luster rain pattern

Stoneware and glazes

11" X 8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Made in America. Absolutely a studio sculptural original, never seen before this graduated width, hand wrought, hand fabricated, hand hammered copper sterling accented cuff bracelet by and with maker's mark of: Handmade & Mimi Dee. The highly textured cuff can be shown as a free standing sculpture that can be displayed on any table or shelf.

Included is a coordinating handkerchief corner, as seen in antique Victorian buttons, adjustable ring...

Richly glazed Rozome teabowl in stacked stones form with hiragana repeat design

Stoneware, slips and glazes

5" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Korean Contemporary Buncheong Ceramic Art by Kim See Man. Buncheong is a unique and centuries-old style of ceramics characterized by a white slip surface that is usually decorated in a spontaneous and expressive manner. This has been imitated in Japan's mishima ware...

Korean Contemporary Buncheong Ceramic Art by Kim See Man. Buncheong is a unique and centuries-old style of ceramics characterized by a white slip surface that is usually decorated in a spontaneous and expressive manner. This has been imitated in Japan's mishima ware...

Korean Contemporary Buncheong Ceramic Art by Kim See Man. Buncheong is a unique and centuries-old style of ceramics characterized by a white slip surface that is usually decorated in a spontaneous and expressive manner. This has been imitated in Japan's mishima ware...

Thrown, altered and assembled Oribe vase based on a traditional Japanese Dotaku, bell form. Traditional Oribe glaze and panels of white and black stripes on either side

Stoneware, slips and glazes

8.75" X 5.75" X 7.25"

Shallow Oribe style wall bowl with alternating areas of mon (gate) designs and a rich lustrous Oribe glaze. The bowl is made so that it may hang if desired

Stoneware, slips and glazes

11.85" X 2.9"

Functional, decorative and food safe