Maru-wan style teabowl with Ao glaze over a black and white "grasses" pattern
Stoneware, slips and glazes
4.75" X 4.2"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Oribe glazed covered box forms, each resting on three feet cut from the footring.
#1 measures 4.75" X 4.75" and has an over all repeat pattern resembling farm fields from an aerial view
#2 measures 4.5" X 5.25" and has two different impressed medallion designs used originally in medieval pottery
Stoneware and traditional Oribe glaze
A wild pottery sculpture by Yamaguchi Mio titled Manimani (every moment), the sandy terracotta colored clay completely unadorned, rising from three feet like some exotic earthen flower. It is 40 x 50 x 59.5 cm and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist dating from 2023. It comes with a signed wooden placard.
Due to size, the cost of shipping will be accrued separately...
Oval combed slip covered serving piece with Ao glaze and red, yellow and green overglaze emamels. The foot was glazed and fired on wads just for the effect it presents.
Stoneware, slip, glaze and enamels
12.5" X 6.25" X 7"
Functional, decorative and food safe
This piece was grilled with burning red pine fire woods for 10days in "Anagama" kiln. This shape of vase is called "Kinuta" that means a hammer of beating straw.
The surface of body is seemed as a natural rock.
Size 10.5cm(W) 18.0cm(H)
Accessary wooden box with signature
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Black Bizen Guinimo and Tokkuri by Oiwa Tomoyuki enclosed respectively in their original signed wooden boxes. There is a wonderful dialog between the two pieces, the bottle blackened with dark dry ash buffeting the surface, while over the same darkness has been blasted molten ash on the cup, flowing around and beading on one side. The juxtaposition between the liquidity and dryness of the two, same colored, ash effects is delightful...
Only one of a kind - fantastic kuro bizen tokkuri with unusual form by famous potter Masao Akiye...
Two semi crushed cylinders, of raw earth by Niisato Akio enclosed in the original compartmentalized and signed wooden box. Each is roughly the size of a real can, the standing piece 13 cm (5 inches) tall, 10 cm (4 inches) diameter, the recumbent work 8 cm (3-1/4 inches) diameter and both are in prefect condition...
This piece was grilled with burning red pine fire woods for 10days in "Anagama" kiln. Melted ashes turned beautiful green glass.
Size 6.5cm(W) 4.5cm(H)
Accessary wooden box with signature
Saffron glazed water jar, covered jar, mizusashi with combed, kushime decoration in slip under the glaze which has run to create long partridge feather tendrils around the base of the pot. There are three gold lacquer dot additions around the form.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
8" x 6.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe
An organic sake cup on stand in pastel yellow by Yamaguchi Michi enclosed in the orignalsl signed wooden box titled Shuhai. It is roughly 6 cm (2-1/2 inches) diameter and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Yamaguchi Michie was born in Aichi prefecture in 1964, and came to pottery at the age of 35, opening her studio in Nagoya in 2003. She first exhibited with the Nitten National Art Exhibition in 2008...
A Mizusashi in signature peach colored glaze by Yamaguchi Michie enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Momo-yu Mizusashi. It comes with a shiny black lacquered lid, which contrasts wonderfully with the matte pink glaze. It is roughly 20 cm (8 inches) diameter, 18 cm (7-1/4 inches) tall and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Yamaguchi Michie was born in Aichi prefecture in 1964, and came to pottery at the age of 35, opening her studio in Nagoya in 2003...
Lugged mizusashi or covered jar form with temmoku and tetsu glaze giving it a karatsu or Tamba style appearance.
Stoneware and glazes
8" x 8"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Oribe style mizusashi, water jar with hakeme (hakame) slip decoration under the lustrous glaze
Stoneware, slip and traditional Oribe glaze
6.25" X 6.25"
Robust majolica tin glazed teabowl with abstract bands of color with an alternating rain pattern in black over the bowl.
Terra cotta, glaze and overglazes
5.35" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
One time price drop on this mizusashi at the owners request.
Classic, robust Ko-Iga style mizusashi by veteran potter, Kojima Kenji. Clearly based on some Iga archetype this solid mizusashi was thrown and slightly manipulated to give the form a nice sense of gesture before adding thick and purposeful lugs and adding marks across the surface to further define the landscape of the piece...
Sadamitsu Sugimoto, a great master of the ceramic art scene in Japan, was led by Tachibana Daiki the great Zen teacher and has been producing a lot of masterpieces through over 40 years .He has been studying the world of “wabi, sabi, and yugen” as his life's theme.
This piece is made of white raku, like as a miniature of white raku chawan.
Size: 6.8cm(D) 5.5cm(H)
Accessory: wooden box signed by potter
Kushime, combed mizusashi and chawan set in a rich Ao glaze with clear accents
Stoneware, slip and glazes
Mizusashi 6.75" X 6.4"
Chawan 4" X 5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
