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All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Pre 1980 item #1344078 (stock #10876)
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$250.00
Small compact vase of irregular shape on a wide foot. Brown clay with white mineral and tiny pebble inclusions typical for Shigaraki and Iga ware, with green and white ash glaze over cross hatched pattern on the shoulder.
A small metal loop on the shoulder in the back to hang the vase from a beam in the tokonoma.

Bottom unglazed. Impressed seal of artist: Kozan.
Japan, Iga ware, Showa/Heisei, circa 1970s-1980s.

H 3-3/4 in., W 4-3/4 in.

Mint condition

Morisato Kozan (b. 1915). Well-known Iga ware potter

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Bowls : Pre 1980 item #1349100 (stock #10908)
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$175.00
Large, relatively tall chawan, as used in the tea ceremony. Light brown coarse stoneware covered with a celadon colored translucent glaze with brown speckles and with a purple and blue-green splash on the front. Unsigned. Japan, Aizu, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, Showa era, circa 1973.
Comes with the original fitted wooden tomobako, inscribed on the outside … chawan; on the inside signed ‘made by Ryoichi, 7th generation of the Munakata kiln’ and with the seal Munakata-gama (Munakata kiln).

H 3-1/8 x Dia 4-1/2 inches

Perfect condition.

Munakata Ryoichi (b. 1933). For more information on the artist (in Japanese), see www.munakatagama.net

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 1990 item #1455505 (stock #11049)
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$295.00
Small, round covered box for keeping incense, kogo in Japanese, in the shape of a coiled snaked. It’s head is in the center of the cover, protruding. Gray, coarse stoneware with small inclusions, the outside turned brown from the heat in the kiln. Eyes are inlaid rings of clay, giving the snake a slightly goofy expression.

Potter’s mark on the bottom of the lower section. Unidentified.

Possibly Tokoname ware.

H ca 1.5 x Diam ca 2.25 in.

Japan, Showa era, 1980s?

Small chip on the outer edge of the lower section; small chip on the outer edge of the cover

From the collection of Sandra Saltzman, New York

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Jars : Pre 1980 item #1464127 (stock #11067)
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$300.00
Jug for holding fresh water for the tea ceremony, called mizusashi. Wheel thrown, thin stoneware of slightly irregular beaker shape (slightly bulging belly towards the bottom and straight sides going up). The mouth is slightly oval. Black-brown iridescent glaze. Custom made black lacquered fitted wooden cover. Seto ware, or black Oribe.

Impressed potter seal Sakusuke inside gourd, and engraved smiley-shaped kao.

H 5.75 (with cover) x W 6.25 in.

Japan, ca 1970s

Undamaged condition

Comes with a wooden storage box inscribed on the cover: Seto; and signed Sakusuke saku and with the artist’s seal

Kato Sakusuke IV (1909-1996) was the 25th in line from Kato Kagemasa, the founder of Seto ware.
He graduated from the Kyoto Vocational School for Industrial Crafts in 1932, and trained in Kyoto for three more years. After returning to Seto and began making pottery under the guidance of his father. He inherited the title of Sakusuke IV in 1944.
He studied the traditional techniques of Oribe, Kuro-Oribe, Ki-Seto, and Ofuke, creating masterful and traditional ceramic/ceremonial works. In 1984 he was designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property of the Prefecture of Aichi.

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Pre 1990 item #1474925 (stock #23-04)
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$350.00
Kogo, box to keep incense, in the shape of a reclining boar, head and nose turned up. Red-brown stoneware with gray and pink glazes, typical for Hagi ware. Inside bottom and cover covered in gray glaze over pink.

Seal impressed in bottom: Tobei.

Japan, Hagi ware, ca. 1981

H 2 x L 3.25 x D 1.1 in.p> Perfect condition.

Comes with the original wrapping cloth with seal of the artist and with original tomobako inscribed Hagi inoshishi (boar) kogo, and signed Tobei XII with round seal of the artist.

Tahara Tobei 12th (1925-1992) worked in the town of Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture, not far away from the town of Hagi. He learned ceramics from his father and brother. Began ceramics in earnest after the war, and after the death of his brother (Tobei XI) inherited the Tobe name. In addition to the traditional Tahara family techniques and style, he studied Goryeo and Korean pottery, as well as Urasenke style tea ceremony, and devoted himself to making tea ware. He was declared an Important Intangible Cultural Asset by the Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1981.
Tobei XII made a series of kogo in the shape of the 12 signs of the animal zodiac.

All Items : Artists : Ceramics : Pottery : Vases : Pre 2000 item #1475170 (stock #11082)
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$300.00
Flower vase with angular shoulder and angular hip, slightly curving in on the sides and standing on a bamboo node foot. Heavy but fine gray stoneware that turned reddish brown upon firing, covered with a celadon green glaze with curved striations made by tracing with his finger. The places where the glaze is scraped back to the stoneware, the clay turned red-brown during firing. Neck covered in cream-colored glaze, inside brown speckled glaze, all typical for Mashiko.

Mingei

Mashiko ware, Japan, late Showa or Heisei era

Vase unsigned

H 8 x diam ca. 4.25 in.

Mint condition

Comes with the original tomobako storage box. Cover inscribed on inside: Flower vase with design of finger-drawing in 2 colors and signed Kazuo with red seal Aki (in mirror image). Cover somewhat damaged.

Akiyama Kazuo (b. 1933) is an artist who started as a painter and changed to ceramic arts in 1960. Worked in the Mashiko tradition and has/had his own kiln.