Here is a fascinating Chawan (tea bowl) made by Koie Ryoji, one of the best internationally known contemporary Japanese potters. It is another embodiment of the artist’s spirit, with a shape that remains free and moving, rough, unique and dynamic. Its colors and its rawness is reminiscent of a wild landscape. As with many works by the famous artist, this piece’s dynamism conveys pure energy and raw strength...

A perfect Mashiko chawan with high foot by greatest Shoji Hamada, enclosed in its originally signed double wood box. The bowl has a wonderful shiyo-yu salt glaze and - rarely seen on Hamada bowls - a figurative 'window' iron glazed design called maru mado. Hamda made such treasures only once a year in April because items with such glaze were very difficult to made...

Here is a fascinating Chawan (tea bowl) made by Koie Ryoji, one of the best internationally known contemporary Japanese potters. It is another embodiment of the artist’s spirit, with a shape that remains free and moving, rough, unique and dynamic. Its colors and its rawness is reminiscent of a wild landscape. As with many works by the famous artist, this piece’s dynamism conveys pure energy and raw strength...

A true Mashiko chawan by greatest Shoji Hamada, enclosed in its signed wood box and an authentification of Shinsaku Hamada.

Hamada Shoji (1894 - 1978) was one of the founding fathers of the Studio Pottery movement, who came over to England with his friend, Bernard Leach, to start the Leach Pottery in St. Ives, Cornwall back in 1920. Like Leach, Hamada did not come from a pottery background but had studied ceramics briefly in Tokyo...

We like to show you this Kohiki-de chawan made by one of the most famous contemporary artists of Japan, Shiro Tsujimura, enclosed in its originally signed wood box. Modeled after Korean Yi Dynasty (1392-1910) Punch'ng wares, Kohiki typically refers to an iron-rich clay body covered over with white slip and then a translucent glaze...

This magnificent chawan is a perfect embodiment of the Shino tradition of Japanese pottery by legendary master and modern avangarde artist Suzuki Goro, in mint condition and enclosed in its original signed wood box.

He surely needs no introduction. Suzuki is one of those once in 500 years' type of artists. Suzuki Goro is a potter who goes beyond that usual appellation. He has developed his own way of expressing himself through ceramics, basing his work on traditional styles from the...

This magnificent chawan is a perfect embodiment of the Oribe tradition of Japanese pottery by legendary master and modern avangarde artist Suzuki Goro, mint condition and enclosed in its original signed wood box.

He surely needs no introduction. Suzuki is one of those once in 500 years' type of artists. Suzuki Goro is a potter who goes beyond that usual appellation. He has developed his own way of expressing himself through ceramics, basing his work on traditional styles from the M...

A spectacular 'Koetsu-utsushi' Aka Raku Tea Bowl by Nakamura Kohei, enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Mint and true museum quality. Kohei (1948-) was born the son of the famous Kanazawa potter. He learned the ceramics from his father, Nakamura Baizan II, and his brothers Kinpei an artist best known for his contemporary art objects. Devouring styles along the way, from celadon to Kohiki, Ido, Hakeme, Mishima, Irabo, Raku (Chojiro and Koetsu), and all are so expertly crafted down to ...

This magnificent chawan is a perfect embodiment of the Oribe tradition of Japanese pottery by legendary master and modern avangarde artist Suzuki Goro, enclosed in its original signed wood box.

He surely needs no introduction. Suzuki is one of those once in 500 years' type of artists. Suzuki Goro is a potter who goes beyond that usual appellation. He has developed his own way of expressing himself through ceramics, basing his work on traditional styles from the Mino tradition: Shin...

A masterpiece tea bowl by Iga master Tanimoto Kosei, accompanied by his signed and sealed original storage box.

Kosei was born in 1916 in Iga city, Mie Prefecure. He made his National Debut as an oil painter artist, his interest in traditional Iga-yaki ceramics started in 1945, and he becomes an Iga potter in 1947, enjoying a long apprenticeship under master potter Komori Shinobu and Sakuzo Hineno at the Institute of Nanagu Ceramics in Ueno, Mie Prefecture.

Tanimoto Ko...