Catalog: Artists (553)

Large altered oval teabowl form with temmoku and partridge feather glaze in the style of Karatsu pottery with a matching oval foot

Stoneware and glazes

6" x 5" x 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large Ido style Hagi chawan with original signed box by Hayashi Koyo. This chawan has a great ido influenced form and a wonderful hagi "landscape" with various tones of blush and spotting.

This chawan is in excellent condition and measures 5.5" X 3.6"

Robust covered cap jar in a deep temmoku glaze with a band of my medieval green over a kushime combed slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

11.25" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

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

Low and wide chawan with temmoku and haiyu ash glaze over a kushime combed decoration. This bowl is very influenced by the famous Momoyama Shino chawan Mine(no)Momiji

Stoneware, slip and glazes

6.25" X 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Narrated DVD about Mashiko artist potter, Matsuzaki Ken. This DVD features the preparation of clay, hand building, coil building, throwing, throwing chawan, glazing and firing by Ken at his studio and wood fired kiln.

Matsuzaki Ken is internationally recognized for his unique synthesis of what he was taught from Shimaoka Tatsuzo and by proxy from Hamada Shoji and his own blend of these styles together with his view of Shino, yohen, Oribe and various other styles...

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.

Medium size terra cotta plate decorated in the tin glazed majolica style with stripes and box devices in various colored washes. 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

Generous medieval green and clear glazed yunomi with an incised "intersection" design around the form

Stoneware and glazes

4" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Saffron glazed water jar, covered jar, mizusashi with combed, kushime decoration in slip under the glaze which has run to create long partridge feather tendrils around the base of the pot. There are three gold lacquer dot additions around the form.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

8" x 6.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Classic and robust Iga Mizusashi made by Tsujimura Shiro who needs no introduction. Powerfully thrown out of a whitish stoneware clay and fired in an anagama, this mizusashi is covered in ash with a small area of blushing on the read and rivulets of ash cascading down the face...

Terra cotta serving bowl with hand carved "grass" pattern

Terra Cotta, slip and glaze

9.75" X 3.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Phenomenal and classic Mino-Iga style vase with unquestionably the finest wood fired surface I have ever seen by Mizuno Takuzo. Large and solitary in its presence, the wide array of textures and coloration paints a unique and powerful form that few can achieve and I doubt I will see a pot with this varied a surface again the ferocity of the firing process is written across the surface...

Tall tataki, paddled hanging vase with my Oribe glaze with accents of iron over the textured surface. Though this piece will stand upright on its own, it is intended as a hanging vase as it would not be exceptionally sturdy supported on the foot.

Stoneware and glazes

13" x 2.8"

Lyrical and whimsical porcelain tsubo by Ishira Akira with overglaze enamels in red, yellow, green and Persian blue decorating the pure white surface. The surface is covered in red enamel, aka-e style creating a floral framework for the three rabbits articulated around the circumference of the pot with accents in other shades of enamel. The brushwork is easily seen and studied and shows a delft and exceedingly experienced hand.

Ishira Akira (b...

High walled porcelain teabowl with "cogito" underglaze black and red decoration and sgraffito under a clear glaze

Porcelain, underglazes and clear glaze

4.7" x 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Waisted form teabowl with temmoku and partridge feather style runny glaze. Picture #5 gives you the best perspective of what the glaze looks like in person.

Stoneware and glazes

5" X 4.25"

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"