Catalog: Artists: Ceramics (549)

A group of five volumes of the Japanese ceramic magazine, Honoho Geijutsu; #35/37/40/41/77. Each volume profusely illustrated, mostly in color with 178 pages and English captions to many of the photos. Each issue has several in depth articles as well as profiles of a wide variety of potters and a section on pottery techniques in the back of each volume...

This bold Momoyama Yashichida-Oribe style chawan is by undisputed master potter; Suzuki Goro. This chawan is decorated in a playful array of traditional Oribe designs worked in a very modern tone with shades of iron black, green and coral set on a creamy ground and glazed over in a clear glaze with the panel surrounded by charcoal black under a satin feldspathic glaze...

Amber glazed (Ameyu) teapot with cobalt decoration high-lighting the body of the piece

Stoneware, glaze and overglaze

8" X 5.75" X 9.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

At nearly 13" tall, this large Persian blue style glazed vase cuts a great figure flanked by bold and detailed brushed of owls rendered within medallions and further detailed with patterns of decoration and faint gold accents to complete the piece...

Casually faceted mentori teabowl with my Tetsu-oribe style glaze on a sandy stoneware clay.

Stoneware and glazes

10.5 x 13 cm

Decorative, functional, food safe

Wonderfully color illustrated catalogue on the works of Ningen Kokuho, Living National Treasure; Arakawa Toyozo. The catalogue measures 10" X 10" and has 187 pages and covers chawan, mizusashi, chaire, tsubo, hachi and numerous other pieces. It also shows the diverse works of Arakawa, showing Shino, Seto-guro, Karatsu, Shigaraki, Bizen and numerous others styles that he worked in.

This catalogue shows works fired at various kilns across Japan, at friends kilns...

Rich, almost volcanic deep red Shino chawan by multi-talented potter, Matsuzaki Ken. This large chawan has a tremendous amount of character and movement with a surface that resembles the Enbu work of Yamada Kazu though made before it was premiered. The thick, unctuous surface has a wonderful feel in the hand and is potently juxtaposed against the crimson red of the base glaze...

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 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"

Large, robust Madara-Karatsu mizusashi with undulating ribs around the circumference of the pot made by Karatsu specialist, Kojima Yoshiaki. In excellent condition with its original signed box, this mizusashi measures 22 x 18cm.

There is a nearly identical example of a mizusashi by Kojima Yoshiaki in the book, MODERN JAPANESE CERAMICS, pg.75, no.54.

This bold and large Oribe chawan is decorated with a myriad of vivid and whimsical designs, combining both traditional and modern elements that speak to the possibilities of the tradition. Created by the extremely talented Ikeda Shogo (b...

Persian, raqqa glazed chawan with rozome traditional technique underglaze decoration

White earthenware, black underglaze decoration and traditional Persian blue glaze

6.25" X 3.35"

Please note, this piece is made using traditional pourous white earthenware and a soft fritted glaze. Though it is food safe and functional, it is not intended for everyday use.

Large wan-gata form saffron glazed neriage teabowl with vivid pattern and mossy glaze effects.

Stoneware and glazes

5.75" X 4.10"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Group of six contemporary Japanese pottery videos, each in excellent condition and running just under an hour.

The videos showcase, Ningen Kokuho and other master craftmen from Bizem, Mino, Mashiko, Karatsu and painted porcelain works.The videos show 360 degree views of some of the potters works, as well as the potters studios, kilns and making pottery chawan, mizusashi, tsubo, etc...

Medium size terra cotta plate decorated in the tin glazed majolica style with resisted spirali e tagli design amid an abstract background. This plate can be wired to hang, please let me know if you want this option.

Terra cotta, glaze and overglazes

14.25" X 2.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Pair of mentori faceted Oribe style guinomi made out of a coarse porcelain clay.

Porcelain and glazes

Maximum size is 7 x 8 cm

Decorative, functional, food safe

Square kaku-gata form vase with paddled texture under a rich breaking Oribe glaze.

Stoneware and glaze

8.2" x 4.5"

Large and very impressive yuteki oilspot tsubo by Kimura Yoshihiro, son of the legendary Kimura Morikazu and inheritor of the oil spot dynasty of his father and uncles; Moriyasu and Morinobu. This large tsubo is made in a classic, Chinese inspired form with a rich black background covered with oilspots from which silvery feathered tendrils trail down the surface of the pot...