Catalog: Artists (553)

Persian, raqqa glazed chawan with rozome traditional technique underglaze grasses decoration of

White earthenware, black underglaze decoration and traditional Persian blue glaze

5.2" X 4.35"

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.

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

Rich Oribe influenced candlestick or vase for dry arrangements, pierced with a circle, square and triangle design representing Sengai's universe. This piece is inspired by one of my favorite antigue Japanese pots.

Stoneware with traditional Oribe glaze

7.75" X 4"

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

Tall and imposing Hagi vase form made by kurinuki master, Kaneta Masanao. At over 14" tall, the vessel is impressive and commands its space much like an ancient medieval citadel. The pot is glazed in a Shiro-Hagi glaze that has significant areas of blushed pinkish hues over half of the form and vivid areas of intense white speckles adorning the absolute purity of the form...

Pedestal style lobed and stamped teabowl with temmoku glaze (the glaze appears more like an amber glaze as it is on porcelain)

Porcelain and glaze

5.5" x 3.85"

Functional, decorative and food safe

This very robust and Momoyama influenced vase was made by Mino potter and part magician, Hori Ichiro. Thrown out of a grainy, off white mogusa clay and decorated in blades of grass on the front and side, the pot was finished off with Hori's classic Shino glaze and fired in his wood kiln. Though difficult to see in the photos, there is a sheen around the neck, mouth and other areas created by a very thin layer of ash has adhered to the surface making for a very interesting addition to the glaze...

Ao glazed teabowl with kushime combed slip decoration on faceted panels around the bowl

Stoneware, slip and glazes

4.7" X 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Bamboo influenced teabowl form with a rich gosu blue over an Ame-yu glaze with a resisted design. The gosu is rich an lush especially in the sunlight

Stoneware and glazes

5.25" X 4.5"

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...

Large oviod teabowl in Oribe style with medieval green glaze over hakeme slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.8" x 4.75" x 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Wide and generous "rice bowl" with a carved plum blossom design in the bowls interior

Porcelain, slip and glaze

6.5" x 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Wonderful hakuji glazed guinomi with "mikomi" and a faceted, mentori kodai foot. Very much in the style of Ishiguro Munemaro.

Excellent condition with signed box and measures 2.7" X 1.5"

This Kobu- Shino chawan is by Sakai Kobu and is an exceptional example of his work. The nebula like decoration around the intentionally distorted tsu-tsu style chawan with undulating lip has a quality of three dimensions within the glaze. The rich and well controlled surface exhibits iron red, blue-grey, white and lavender tones within the glaze and it is obvious why Sakai is so highly regarded as a modern Mino potter by looking at this chawan...

Cylindrical vase with tapered mouth, decorated in a katazome influenced design of three bloesem panels under my Ao glaze

Stoneware, slips and glazes

9.6" X 5"

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

Tall teabowl with an impressed line decoration covering the surface under my Oribe style glaze with hand cut foot and fired on wads.

Stoneware and glazes

13.5 x 12cm

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