Chalice form teabowl glazed in temmoku and haiyu glazes and influenced by ash glazed Karatsu ware
Stoneware, slip and glazes
4.8" X 4.25"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Rich temmoku glazed pedestal style teabowl, chawan with impressed design. 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
5.5" X 4.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed teabowl with tataki paddled decoration around the bowl with a "mountain range" style lip
Stoneware and glazes
5.5" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Large temmoku and haiyu ash glazed kinuta mallet vase with lobed indents around the body of the vase. The ash glaze streaks and runs down the vase neck and boils in activity on the shoulder
Stoneware and glazes
13.75" X 6.25
An incredible mixture of gray and lavender colors on the sculpted natural form of this expressive Chawan by the 8th generation Kaneta Masanao.
It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box titled Hagi Hai-yu (ash glazed) Kurinuki Chawan.
The style is Kurinuki, not formed on a wheel but cut and worked from a block of clay, an approach the artist is world wide famous for.
Masanao likely needs no introduction...
Wangata style stoneware neiage teabowl with looping "slinga" pattern with a alkaline clear and my saffron glaze over. The bowl sits on a pedestal style notched foot.
Stoneware and glazes
5.25" x 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Round ko-tsubo, small vase with temmoku glaze and clear panels with multi-color enamels in vertical stripes
Stoneware, slip, glazes and overglaze enamels
7" X 7"
Matcha Chawan (Tea Bowl), Mashiko-yaki, by Tagami Isamu of Hinata Kiln, Mashiko. The straight sides and deep well make this a Fuyu-chawan (Winter Tea Bowl,) but it is appropriate for use in any season. Faceted sides, Kaki (persimmon) glaze with red & green overglaze enamel decoration of sugar cane reed and stripes. H. 3.125"(8cm) x Dia. 4.25"(11cm.) Tagami Isamu was born in 1947 in Mooka, a village neighboring to Mashiko. He married into the Sudo family and apprenticed under Sudo Takeo...
Large open teabowl form with my Ao glaze over a bloesem design in rozome style slip
Porcelain, slip and glazes
6" X 3.2"
Functional, decorative and food safe
The chawan is adorned with a delicately applied ash glaze, exhibiting a graceful transition from a deeper hue to a lighter shade on the bowl's sides...
A gossamer work by the demanding young female artist Lu Xueyun enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Breeze 2019-III. The vessel is made up of married sheets of thin porcelain, so thin in fact that light passes easily through it. Her works are truly exquisite, captivating in their frailty. I have been following the diaphanous works of Lu (known in Japan by the Japanese reading of her name, Ro-san) for nearly 5 years and waiting for the opportunity to introduce her to the outer world...
Bold large teabowl with carved shinogi grooves around the form glazed in my medieval green and temmoku glazes
Stoneware and glazes
6" X 3.75"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Robust thrown teabowl with thick fluted slip under a richer Ao glaze
Porcelain, slip and glazes
5.2" x 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Ao glazed porcelain teabowl with thick kushime slip decoration around the surface.
Porcelain and glazes
5.5" x 3.6"
Decorative, functional and food safe
A fabulous textured on those faceted sake cups and Ichirin Sashi (Single Flower Vase) by Sakai Hiroshi enclosed in the original signed wooden boxes.
Size, Vase, D 9.2 cm H 19.1 cm
Size, Cups, D 6,7cm and 6.5cm
H 5.2cm and 6.6cm
Condition, Excellent
Rich temmoku glazed vase form with archaic inspired impressed decoration around the body
Stoneware and glaze
8.25" X 6"
18 stunning Oribe works from Higashida Shigemasa, including,Tea Bowls,Vase,Sake Cups and Sake Bottles, will be available for purchase form Oct 12. To view all of Shigemasa works, please visit our side.
Higashida Shigemasa was born in Hiroshima in 1955, and garnered a BA from the Shimonoseki Municipal University in 1978. Looking for an alternate path, he entered the Gifu Prefectural Technical School Ceramic Course in Tajimi in 1984, graduating in 1986...
One of a kind! Wonderful Nana Nana Kiju Chawan made by the most famous monk of Japan, Shimizu Kosho (Kōshō), which he made as a commemorative tea bowl to celebrate his 77 birthday.
It comes with the originally signed and sealed wooden box of this most famous buddhistic monk. This tea bowl is made of clay of the Jinraku-Gama-kiln, which is famous for folk craft style pottery...
Generous medieval galena style yunomi, teacup with a rich galena style glaze over an incised "intersection" design. Though galena influenced, this is a lead free glaze!
Stoneware and glazes
4.5" X 3.5"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Seo Byung Ho was the recipient of the top prize in the 2009 World Ceramic Biennale, the highest paid ceramic art prize in the world. With this lovely pair of sculptural vases, Seo has combined the shape of a traditional vessel with the form of a fish, a symbol of eternal vigilance because the fish never closes its eyes. For the same reason, the fish is also a symbol of diligence that has long been a source of inspiration for Korean scholars, and is a common motif employed in scholar's implements...
We proudly present an iridescent tea bowl with wonderful rainbow glaze by one of the greatest ceramic artists of our time, Hideaki Miyamura. It comes in mint condition with its signed and sealed wooden box.
Hideaki Miyamura was born in 1955 in Niigata, Japan, and traveled to the United States to study art history at Western Michigan University...
Persian, Raqqa glazed Ido style chawan with rozome underglaze
decoration of grasses
White earthenware, black underglaze decoration and traditional Persian blue glaze
6" X 3.6"
Please note, this piece is made using traditional pourous white earthenware and a soft fritted glaze. Though it is food safe and functional, it is not intended for everyday use.
A gossamer work by the demanding young female artist Lu Xueyun enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Breeze 2019-I. The vessel is made up of married sheets of thin porcelain, so thin in fact that light passes easily through it. Her works are truly exquisite, captivating in their frailty...
Large and robust porcelain chawan with a tataki (paddled) style netting design around the bowl and richly glazed in Ao and clear.
Porcelain and glazes
5.6" X 3.85"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Lyrical blue and white teabowl with a droozy rich blue decoration representing Sengai's Universe from his Zen parable and zenga. The circle/square/triangle is repeated twice around the apex of the chawan
Porcelain, underglaze gosu blue and glaze
5.25" X 4"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Temmoku glazed travelers style tabi-chawan with sukashi decoration of "grasses" pattern in a stone texture (ishime-ji) making for a very tactile piece
Stoneware, engobe and glaze
4.5" X 4.35"
Functional, decorative and food safe
Stoneware covered dome box form glazed in my Kuro-Oribe surface and cornucopia inspired knob.
Box measures approximately 17 x 14.5cm
Stoneware and glazes
Decorative, functional and food safe
Matcha Chawan, Tea Bowl, by Sachiko Furya; Honolulu, HI. Ido-gata (Well-Shaped,) Bamboo Ash and White Shino Glazes. H. 3.125"(8cm) x Dia. 6.0"(15.5cm,) Foot Ring 2.0" (5cm.) Sachiko Furuya hails from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. There, she studied pottery with Yukio Matsuura, making primarily tea wares for practitioners of the Omotesenke School of Tea...
A magnificent Shigaraki vase by Furutani Kazuya enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Konsei Hanaire (Blended Clay). The mixed earth creates a unique texture with green ash and burnt red where it has been licked by flame, yet remains pale from the shadows of the kiln, each side is unique, and there is never a dull moment...
Mingei influenced stark white slipped bottle vase with dramatic hakame executed with a stiff boar's fur brush. This shape is a bit reminescent of Scandanavian form of the 1950's
Stoneware, slip and glaze
10.2" X 5.5"
Try describing this incredible Vase is not difficult: Spectacular is all that comes to mind. This large vase is covered in glassy Oribe green glaze by the important Mino Ware master potter Tsukamoto Haruhiko, born in Mino in 1959
His work, reflects a certain, more modern departure from the established tradition, without compromising the quality of its craft and design.
Tsukamoto Haruhiko studying with Nonaka Shunsei and Asai Reiji. He struck out on his own in 1985 and sinc...
GIZA GIZA
Ceramic work formed with paper coated with mad and burnt by me myself, Fumie Nishimura. ‘Giza Giza’ is a Japanese onomatopoeia and would be translated to “Jagged” in English.
H 17.5 x W 17.5 x D 17.5cm (6.88 x 6.88 x 6.88in). Very delicate and fragile piece so that some parts will be chipped, though I'll try my best to pack it very carefully.
(So, as long as you want to receive 100% complete actualy piece, please don't order it since I can't g...
An interesting contemporary Hagi piece resting on a split-foot (wari-kodai) and a unique glaze patterning that somewhat resembles layers of flower petals. A creation of Morishige Tetsuyo, a native of the famous potting town of Hagi who later studied in Kyoto and eventually took up a position at the family kiln “Renkozan” with tutelage from both his father and grandfather. This particular piece is from a series he began in 2009 aptly named “Kaben” (The petal series). Actively displaying b...
Wood-fired Tea Bowl, Matcha Chawan, by John Benn; Harstine Island, WA. Black Glaze, with areas appearing ochre and gold. Two finger marks remain where the bowl was glaze-dipped. Stamped with artist's mark. H. 3.25"(8.25cm) x Dia. 4.625"(11.75cm.)
John Benn studied with F. Carleton Ball and Ken Stevens at the U. of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and with Howard Shapiro and Sandra Simon in the MFA Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, he built his first wood kiln. Now, he and ...
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
Only one of a kind - fantastic kuro bizen tokkuri with unusual form by famous potter Masao Akiye.
He was born in Saitama near Tokyo in 1968.
After he studied in the Tokyo Institute and Art University, he began his career as a 'professional' Bizen potter in the kiln in Bizen City.
After having studied under Isezaki Jun, Bizen Living National Treasure for 10 years, he founded his anagama kiln in 2008.
His work won already many important awards, the Tanabe-Mus...
