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Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
$2,025.00
$2,025.00
Sugimoto Sadamitsu (b. 1935) is one of the most important Shigaraki potters alive today and continues to create master works into his old age. Originally a resident of Tokyo, at the age of 33 he moved to Shigaraki and started creating high-quality tea-ware implements, most notably, fine tea bowls in the style of early Raku masters...
Hawkes, Asian Art
£265.00
£265.00
The second Living National Treasure of Mashiko. The first was his teacher Shōji Hamada.
A ash-glazed stoneware box and cover with an intaglio design of grasses filled with white slip. Shimaoka’s seal within the foot-rim.
Approximately 11.5 cm high, 10.3 diameter...
Momoyama Gallery
$4,500.00
$4,500.00
A true Mashiko Chawan by greatest Shoji Hamada with a real beautiful Ameyu glaze, double boxed and originally signed and sealed by the artist.
This treasure was part of the exhibition "The artists who searched for Mingei".
Hamada Shoji (1894-1978) was one of the leading potters of the Japanese Mingei (Folk Craft) movement...
Zentner Collection
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
Wonderful medium-sized crater bowl, thinly potted of black clay and with glossy black glaze pitted with craters for volcanic moon-like effect, Signed Lovera; James Lovera (American, 1920-2015) modernist potter.
Teacher at San Jose State University. James Lovera exhibited at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento in 2006: "Craters of Fire: Ceramics by James Lovera". With original inventory tag.
Age: c. 1990s.
Size: 8.5" Diameter x 5.25" Height
Age: c. 1990s.
Size: 8.5" Diameter x 5.25" Height
Momoyama Gallery
$650.00
$650.00
Wonderful Kutani Guinomi (Sake cup) with typical wan shape, produced by one of the most famous contemporary artists of Kutani, Tokuda Yasokichi III (1933-2009).
The stone ware clay was covered with dark purple glaze, which turns to light blue towards the brim. His stamp (Masahiko) is inside the unglazed foot ring...
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
$765.00
$765.00
This piece is described on the box as a Hikidashi Kuro Chawan. In Japanese hikidashi means “a pull-out drawer” and the term first came into use at Mino kilns in the 16th century to describe individual pieces that were pulled out of the wood kiln at the peak of firing to gauge if the batch was ready. The rapid cooling of such pieces often creates dramatic effects, with the most noted being rich varieties of deep black...
Korean Art and Antiques
$900.00
$900.00
Roe Kyung Jo (born 1951) is one of the most well-known of Korean contemporary ceramic artists, renowned for his mastery of the thousand-year-old yeollimun technique of marbleized ceramics. This beautiful bottle is a fine example. Studies on Roe's works have been published in a variety of international scholarly publications...
Momoyama Gallery
$1,800.00
$1,800.00
Here is a brilliant Chawan by Master Mashiko Potter and Living National Treasure Shimaoka Tatsuzo enclosed in the original signed and stamped wooden box. It is in mint condition with no chips or cracks.
Shimaoka Tatsuzo (1919-2007) is one of the best-known Japanese potters. The artist studied under another pottery legend, Hamada Shoji, to become one of Mashiko master craftsmen...
Albedo 3 Studio
$60.00
$60.00
Robust Oribe style covered jar with kushime slip decoration and angular knob. Though not necessarily intended as a mizusashi, it sits well next to a Shigaraki chawan in photo #6. ***I should also mention there is a fine crack where the knob meets the lid that is not sharp and does not effect the use and function of this piece.
Stoneware, slip and glaze
7.65 x 6.8"
SANAI FINE ART & ANTIQUES
Price on Request
Price on Request
Additional Photos for Tanba Yaki Jar by Ichino Shinsui with Tomobako
Albedo 3 Studio
$650.00
$650.00
Interesting and rare set of Iga chawan by the "grandfather" of modern Iga-yaki, Tanimoto Kosei and his son, Tanimoto Kei. Both of these wood fired chawan are robust pieces that typify the work of each artist and the modern Iga movement with areas of rich green ash balanced against toasty hi-iro fire color and allowing the tsuchi-aji, clay taste to be enjoyed as well...
Albedo 3 Studio
$325.00
$325.00
Large, robust Madara-Karatsu mizusashi with undulating ribs around the circumference of the pot made by Karatsu specialist, Kojima Yoshiaki. In excellent condition with its original signed box, this mizusashi measures 22 x 18cm.
There is a nearly identical example of a mizusashi by Kojima Yoshiaki in the book, MODERN JAPANESE CERAMICS, pg.75, no.54.
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$250.00
$250.00
Ceramic tokkuri - sake bottle - with sturdy body and cup mouth. Shino ware with dark body and free potting - one can feel spiral lines on the body left by fingers of the potter and see a beautiful spiral line on the bottom. Orange and gray Shino glaze with swirling lines, wonderful sense of energy to the piece. Made by American potter Robert Fornell (resided in Japan 1988-1996) marked with his seal on the foot. Great object in Japanese taste, in excellent condition. Height 5 3/8 inches.
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$250.00
$250.00
Ceramic tokkuri - sake bottle - with sturdy body and cup mouth. Shino ware with dark body and wonderful free potting - one can feel spiral lines on the body left by fingers of the potter and see a beautiful spiral line on the bottom. Orange and gray Shino glaze with swirling lines, wonderful sense of energy to the piece. Made by American potter Robert Fornell (resided in Japan 1988-1996) marked with his seal on the foot. Great object in Japanese taste, in excellent condition...
Dmitry Levit Asian Art
$160.00
$160.00
Ceramic tokkuri - sake bottle - with flattened oval body and cup mouth. Rust color body and wonderful free potting - one can feel spiral lines on the body left by fingers of the potter. Gray Shino glaze with areas of deeper color, beautiful crackling to the glaze, wonderful sense of energy to the piece. Made by American potter Robert Fornell (resided in Japan 1988-1996) marked with his seal on the foot. Great object in Japanese taste, in excellent condition. Height 5 3/4 inches.
Albedo 3 Studio
$136.50
$136.50
Wonderful porcelain tsubo with exquisitely painted sparrow and foliage across the surface with vivid watercolor like effects calling to mind a scene right out of early autumn. The detail of the painting is rather intricate and obviously owes its inspiration to many of the Meiji era painters of which Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918) immediately springs to mind...
Oriental Treasure Box
$2,450.00
$2,450.00
Japanese 20-21st century large ceramic vase by Ito Shin. Ito Shin was born in Chiba, Japan in 1952 and has lived in worked in Mashiko in Tochigi Prefecture. He studied under KIKUCHI AKIRA, another Mashiko artist. He is a member of the DENTOKOGEIKAI, or traditional arts guild and also the Japan Ceramics Exhibition and has been selected to exhibit in these shows since 1977. Signed by artist on bottom. The vase comes with TOMOBAKO, or original artist signed wooden storage box...
Oriental Treasure Box
$1,200.00
$1,200.00
Japanese late 20th to early 21st century ORIBE ware large tray by artist SATO KAZUJI. (1948 -) SATO KAZUJI studied with ceramicist, HAYASHI KOTARO, a SHINO ware artist, but both artist are MINO artist. In 1978 he started his own kiln in Gifu Prefecture working with SHINO and ORIBE ware. The tray comes with TOMOBAKO, or original artist signed wooden storage box. The tray measures 29 1/2" in wide, 18" deep and 2 1/2" tall. The tray sits on 4 large feet.
Momoyama Gallery
$395.00
$395.00
This is the second tea bowl in our collection made by first class potter Kingyoku Nakata. It was made around 1980. A plum tree is hand-painted on the bowl...
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
$675.00
$675.00
Using local materials and traditional methods, the creator of this work Masahiko Imanishi, has brought a distinctively modern interpretation to the classical form of the tsutsu chawan. At the same time, he somehow manages to maintain the simple rusticity that Tanba-ware is renowned for. Stretching back over 800 years, Tanba is counted as one of Japan’s 6 ancient kiln sites and is known for making large pots with red ferrous clay and natural ash glazes with a distinctive greenish tinge. More re...
Albedo 3 Studio
$52.50
$52.50
Large waisted kushime teabowl with thick combed slip and a drifted iron surface.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
5.5" x 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
$275.00
$275.00
Large porcelain bowl by Susan Filley (contemporary, working in Chapel Hill, NC). Signed "S.Filley" bottom. 13 1/4" across, 5" high. In excellent condition. Susan Filley is an internationally exhibited studio potter who has been working mainly in porcelain for over 30 years. Her works are in the collections of the Shiwan Museum in China, the Mint Museum in Charlotte, etc.
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
$395.00
$395.00
Large bottle shaped vase by Cynthia Bringle (American, born 1939). In excellent condition. Signed "Bringle" on the bottom. 10 1/2" high. Artist and ceramicist Cynthia Bringle has lived and worked in Penland North Carolina, where she has her studio and gallery, since 1970. Her works are in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Mint Museum in Charlotte NC, etc.
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
$295.00
$295.00
Beautiful early vase by Ben Owen III, signed and dated 1996, salt fired pottery with carved decoration and square mouth. One of a number of works by this artist currently available. Please inquire.
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
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Group of 3 scraffito and brush decorated earthenware vessels by Dr. Lawrence Jordan (American, 1947-2007), circa 1984-1986. The largest (9.5" high) is marked L.Jordan 86. The second is marked L.Jor84. The third is unmarked.
Dr. Lawrence Jordan was an important American studio potter and educator. These pieces can be sold together or in two groups (the largest with the four handles can be sold separately from the other two, which I would prefer to sell together)
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
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Large ceramic vessel by Dr. Lawrence Jordan (American, 1947-2007), dated 1986 and signed L.Jordan on the bottom. 9.5" high, 7" wide, 7" deep. This piece is a brush and scraffito decorated earthenware vessel. In excellent condition. One of three pieces by this artist currently in our inventory.
Lawrence Jordan received a PhD in Art Education and completed a 9 year apprenticeship with ceramics master Kenneth Beitel. He himself taught ceramics and art, while exhibiting his work in Virginia an...
Albedo 3 Studio
$89.50
$89.50
XO tebori façade bottle vase
Terra cotta, slip and glaze
10" x 12.5" x 3.65"
Albedo 3 Studio
$89.50
$89.50
Abstrakt resist terra cotta Façade bottle vase
Terra cotta, slips and glaze
11.75" x 12.75" x 3.75"
Welcome To Another Century
$175.00
$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 k...
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 k...
Kyoto Ceramics and Fine Art
$675.00
$675.00
This remarkable tea bowl is from the kilns of Yoshida Shuen (1940-1987)—an apprentice of Miwa Kyusetsu (1910-2012) who was awarded the status of Living National Treasure in 1983. It features a warm crackled glazing with a white translucent overcoat that beads in areas.
Hagi-yaki has a tradition stretching back over 400 years and is a high-fired stoneware type of pottery. Hagi-ware is prized for its subdued colors and classical features, especially the glazing, which is often clea...
Hagi-yaki has a tradition stretching back over 400 years and is a high-fired stoneware type of pottery. Hagi-ware is prized for its subdued colors and classical features, especially the glazing, which is often clea...
Albedo 3 Studio
$225.00
$225.00
Traditional style chaire which was first glazed to the shoulder and then wood fired for a haikaburi effect. This chaire is in perfect condition with lid, bag and signed box and measures 7.5 x 6.8cm. The chaire mouth is not quite perfectly round and the lid fits very tightly.
Yamada Masakazu, born in 1951 is a traditional Mino craftsman and has been president of the Mino potters Association and specializes in wood fired Shino, Oribe and haiyu pottery.
Albedo 3 Studio
$56.50
$56.50
Large Oribe style chawan thrown out of my iron based clay with thick hakeme slip applied around the body completed with a small but sturdy hand carved foot.
Stoneware, slip and glazes
13.6 x 11.5cm
Functional, decorative and food safe
Welcome To Another Century
$250.00
$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.
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....
Momoyama Gallery
$4,800.00
$4,800.00
One of a kind and absolutely rare: Very large Oni Shino Yohen Tsubo by Tsukigata Nahiko, enclosed in its originally signed double wooden box. A true masterpiece, 8,3 kg heavy, 28 cm high with a maximum circumference of 88 cm, imagine that.
Tsukigata Nahiko (1923-2006) actually needs no introduction. He was not only an accomplished ceramic artist, but also a musician, painter, calligrapher and sculptor.
Tsukigata was born in Niigata prefecture, he studied at the Waseda Un...
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
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Large jar or vase by Kirk Mangus (American, 1952-2013) free form with slip and incised decoration in the form of two fishes (one large, one small, the large fish going after the small of course). Signed "Mangus" and inscribed "xox" bottom. Probably from the late eighties but could be earlier. Roughly 9" high and 8" across. Kirk Mangus is an internationally recognized American artist and ceramicist.
Albedo 3 Studio
$52.50
$52.50
Robust, manipulated teabowl with bamboo tool carved foot covered in my Oribe style glaze with iron accents over an impressed line design.
Stoneware and glaze
14 x 10cm.
Functional, decorative and food safe
