Catalog: Artists: Ceramics: Pottery (454)

Lush wasp jar with my Ao glaze over hakeme slip with stinger style lid knob

Stoneware, slip and glazes

8.8" X 6.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Broad, high walled teabowl glazed in temmoku with panels of my saffron and tetsu-yu glazes all over hakeme slip

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.6" X 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Rich, almost luxuriant chawan by rising star, Tsukamoto Haruhiko (b. 1959). This lush and evocative Oribe chawan features an every changing landscape and kaleidoscope of textures and color over the well carved, faceted surface. From light and pale tones of green and blue-green, to thick pools of a rich brown-green pool of glaze in the mikomi, this chawan has something at every angle and turn of the chawan...

Elegant Shino lugged vase by veteran potter, Ando Hidetake (b. 1938). Thrown and then paddled ovoid, this simple tea ceremony vase was made of Mino mogusa clay and once stiff, the foot was hand carved to produce a fitting oval foot to compliment the form. There are wispy traces of iron under the crisp white Shino glaze meant to insinuate grasses and stemmed flowers in an ethereal Momoyama ink painting inspired manner...

Well fired Shigaraki chawan by Furutani Michio (1940-2000). Fine ash and bidoro glass cover this Hikidashi style (pulled out) Shigaraki chawan with a vivid pool of bidoro also covering the interior floor and walls of this teabowl. The signature is obscured, covered in ash, glass and charcoal. Over 95% of this chawan is covered in a coating of green glassy ash and is appealing to both the eye and hand...

A large, Momoyama inspired, Shino chawan by the master potter and legendary personality; Tsukigata Nahiko (1923-2006). Though it is easy to spot some influences of his master, Arakawa Toyozo, this chawan is all Tsukigata Nahiko. The swell and rhythm of the throwing, the application of a rich red iron underglaze and his soft and seductive Shino creates a style that is easy to differentiate from most other Mino/Shino potters...

Powerful, dramatic, enigmatic, there is a nearly unending number of descriptions that would still all fall short in describing this large Enbu-Shino chawan by Yamada Kazu. Enbu literally means "dancing fire" and it is that dancing fire that pushed the clay and glaze of this chawan to the very limit where the glaze turned to molten glass and began to flow like lava down the sides and into the interior of this pot...

A large, exhibition quality, bold and timeless Oni-Shino chawan by the master potter and legendary personality; Tsukigata Nahiko (1923-2006). This rare wood fired chawan has a wide variety of surface effects caused by the interplay of iron and Shino glazes and an intense fire with the face exhibiting a satiny iron face (tetsu-omote). The intentionally distorted shape fits the hand well and the lip, mikomi and kodai all act to balance out a truly inspired work by a potter of the highest level...

Double gourd form tokkuri, bottle with rich temmoku and tetsu-yu glazes. The foot is glazed and the remains of wad impressions are present on the foot, but smooth to the touch.

Stoneware and glazes

7.25" x 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Temmoku and haiyu glazed tea caddy, chaire with ceramic lid. There is flowing glaze all around the upper portion of the wasp waisted form with a beautiful green steak present on the face of the pot.

Stoneware and glazes

4.2" x 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Saffron hakeme yellow iron glazed wasp-waisted covered jar with subtle raked slip under the glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

12.25" x 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Saffron hakeme yellow iron glazed double gourd bottle vase with subtle raked slip under the glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

9.75" x 5.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Very large Karatsu style teabowl that was thrown and tataki paddled with texture into an oval form. There are various tones of ash and iron yellow flowing about the bowl, especially seen on the inside. The foot is tooled by hand, off the wheel, to go with the form of the bowl. The clay is a mixture of actual river clay and my stoneware clay to give it an earthy iron brown flavor.

Stoneware, slip and glaze

6.5" x 4.75" x 3.85" Functional, decorative and food safe

Earthy Mashiko henko by internationally known potter, hamada Shinsaku. Learning about pottery from his father, Hamada Shoji, Shinsaku has mastered the essence of Mashiko pottery as seen in this very fine, exhibition quality henko bottle with rich tessha glaze over a clear glaze with areas of a deep blue-green enamel punctuating the design of one side...

Intriguing chawan in the Mino tradition with thick trails of a feldspar Shino glaze over a rich temmoku glaze. This novel approach was created by Mino prefecture potter, Shomura Shogo and was most likely made in the 1980's.

This chawan is in great condition, measures 5" x 3" and comes with its original signed box.

Hagi chawan from the illustrious studio of Yoshiga Taibi, legendary potter and teacher. This Senryuzan chawan is a classical Hagi pot with rich tones of lavender running through out the glaze.

This chawan is in great condition, measures 5.25" x 3.5" and comes with its signed box.

Classical chawan in the Kuro-Bizen style by the late master potter, Isezaki Mitsuru. This chawan exhibits a blackened, charcol fired exterior with ash sprinkled about the face and covering the interior floor of the bowl. the foot is exceptionally well cut and very crisp and his mark is prominently featured in the interior of the foot ring.

This chawan is in good, original condition, measures 5.25" x 3.4" and comes complete with its original signed box.

Elegant Irabo glazed chawan by Takatori legend, Miraku Kamei. This chawan has a Chinese influenced form while being made and glazed in the Takatori style. The flowing irabo ash glaze contrasts nicely against the reddish takatori fine clay.

This chawan is in excellent, unused condition, measures 5" x 2.8" and comes complete with its original, signed box.