Catalog: Artists (553)

Rozome style covered jar with the repeated resist designs of the character, Mu. Mu means "nothingness" in Zen Buddhism, think of the possibilities for such a jar! The green overglaze is very reminiscent of Japanese Fujina style glazes and is very rich in person

Stoneware, slips and glazes

9" X 7.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe!

This large henko, molded bottle is by forth generation Otani-gama kiln master; Yano Shinichi. This henko comes with signed box and is in excellent condition.

The vase measures 5.25" X 5.25" X 10.25" but the measurements alone do not adequately present the volume and mass of this piece...

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...

Haiyu ash and Temmoku glazed teabowl with combed (kushime) slip decoration. The droozy haiyu glaze has an iridescent appearance with moss like effects running down the surface

Porcelain, slip and glazes

5.5" X 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Stoneware covered box form glazed in my Kuro-Oribe surface with Johnny Hart B.C. and Prometheus inspired finial.

Box measures approximately 17.5 x 13.5cm

Stoneware and glazes

Decorative, functional and food safe

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

Large Ko-Iga style chawan by veteran potter, Kojima Kenji. This broad bowl has a wonderful posture with a gentle, undulating lip and a face and part of the interior coated in a soft green ash with a rich pool of deep green ash formed from the bowl being fired at a slight angle. The interior mikomi and exterior kodai are both very well executed adding to a chawan that was well handled in both the throwing and firing of the piece...

Robust Oribe style teabowl with a matsukawa texture around the body of the piece. There are two areas of poured and partially removed slip under the glaze creating areas of varying brightness.

Stoneware, slip and glaze

14 x 10 cm.

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

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

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 cap jar decorated with repeated hiragana design in the rozome technique

Stoneware, slips, glazes

12" X 6.6"

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"

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

Vivid electric blue (bleu electrique) teabowl in lobed form with pedestal foot and vivid cobalt decoration running down from the lip

Porcelain and glazes

5.25" X 4.3"

Not intended for daily use

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