Catalog: Artists (553)

This bold chawan is a lesson in texture, covered over in a thick feldspar Shino style glaze meant to imitate shark-skin, the bowl is well thrown and slightly manipulated with spatula faceting around the lower portion of the piece and an attractive, undulating lip. The highly textural glaze is in constant motion with areas of small and large nodules colliding to animate the form that has iron added under the glaze to also create a moody, atmospheric presence to the pot...

Large hakeme chawan with aka-e decoration around the bowl. In vivid red, a full moon style enso together with the expression; not one moon.

*** Please note, the actual color of the decoration is a vivid red, not the orange toned red shown in the pictures***

Stoneware, glaze and painted enamel

5.2" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

This bowl is not recommended for microwave use and should be hand washed

Hand carved terra cotta covered jar with "grasses" pattern on the body and lid

Terra Cotta, slip and glaze

7.75" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Traditional Oribe hachi with vivid combed flowing water texture made by the internationally lauded potter, Kato Yasukage XIV. Elegant and traditional in form with quick, gestural combed texture on the front and stright lined texture to the back, creates a wonderfully decorative and functional hachi which balances on three well conceived feet...

Vivid texture and color variations paint this bold swirl platter by Shigaraki and Oribe specialist, Yamaguchi Yoshinari. Made of a tight buff-white stoneware the Oribe glaze has created varying hues of green depending on the thickness of the glaze with high points having a brighter surface and a thick pool of green glass in the center of the plate with rich blue-green tones where the copper has become over-saturated...

Large Momoyama influenced tataki paddled Oribe vase with large lugs applied on the neck. The pot was fired on wads, which were ground off and the areas are smooth to the touch. This piece has a great deal of volume and is much larger than the dimensions imply.

Stoneware and glazes, made by Craig Bird of Albedo 3 Studio

12.5" x 7" max.

Lively wood fired Shino chawan by Kido Sadaaki. This stoneware chawan has a variety of wood fired effects from a thin coating of green ash about the surface to a crusty ash build up on the face of the pot. the bowl form fits well in the hand and the lip undulates enough to get the eye to observe the melted feldspar running into the interior and the deep, rich green pool that punctuates the center...

Classic devil's bucket style Shigaraki mizusashi by veteran master craftsman, Tani Seiuemon I. This impressive and well fired Shigaraki mizusashi was thrown and has a rich surface and a lid that sits well on the turned in mouth. Fired in an anagama wood fired kiln for nearly a week, the resulting effects paint the surface with deposits of natural ash some of which turn to glass across the surface...

Large, oburi teabowl with a rich and semi-translucent Temmoku glaze over a vivid masame pattern impressed design, a wonderfully tactile chawan

White Stoneware and Temmoku glaze

5.75" X 4.2"

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"

Rich temmoku glazed Rhytnmos (rhythm) style teabowl, chawan. This glaze is very rich and has a luster on the glaze surface and looks different in various light sources, a simple but complex glaze

Porcelain and glaze

5.6" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

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

Compact tokkuri (sake bottle) in Jovian Storms neriage pattern. This piece can be used as a sake bottle, bud vase or just a decorative accent

Porcelain and glaze

6" X 4.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Charcol fired, yakishime tsubo with "hana", flower designs incised on the pot by Otani (Yano) Shin-ichi

27 x 24cm

In perfect condition with original signed box and stamped cloth

Old English style glazed yunomi (#1), teabowl with a repeat pattern of impressed medieval designs

Porcelain and glaze

4.25" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Tall, bold vase by Shino and oribe specialist; Higashida Shigemasa (b. 1955). Glazed in his signature HakuSetsu Shino and haiyu glazes, this vase shows his strong deconstructivist styling married with contemporary Japanese aesthetics to create a unique and idiosyncratic work for which he is known for around the world...

Robust, rounded wan-gata style teabowl with temmoku and haiyu glazes over a kushime combed slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.5" X 4.25"

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