Mizusashi, Fresh Water Jar used in Chanoyu, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Wood & gas fired with Ash Glaze interior. H. 5.75"(14.5cm) x Dia. 7.5"(19cm.) Mouth opening 4.875"(12.5cm.) Volume = 64oz (2,000cc.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates...

Hanging Vase, Kakehanaire, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Saggar fired with grass. This pot experienced heavy charring on the bottom during firing (see enlargements.) H. 3.625"(9cm) x Dia. 3.25"(8.25cm.), with copper ring attached in back for hanging on a wall or post. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates...

Large wasp waisted vase with chimney style neck glazed in a rich temmoku and tetsu0yu combination with large ring lugs flanking the neck.

Stoneware and glazes

15.75" x 7.5"

Tall Oribe style bottle vase which was thrown round and paddled square with a texture about the surface and a band of black and white herringbone design near the top. The bottom shows where the wads were ground off and this area is smooth to the touch.

Stoneware, slips and glazes

12.35" x 6.5"

White Shino glaze Vase with studded neck & shoulder, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. H. 9.125"(23cm) x Dia. 4.5"(11.5cm.) 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. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degree from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa...

Keikan-ko (Chicken Head) Vase, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. Inspired by a historical Chinese shape. Shino and Bamboo Ash Glazes, with braid handle. H. 9.5"(24cm) x W. 5.75"(14.5cm.) 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...

Vase with wide base, Shino and Bamboo Ash Glazes, by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. H. 7"(18cm) x W. 5.75"(14.5cm.) 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. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and has a Studio Art degree from Clark College in Dubuque, Iowa...

Keikan-ko (Chicken Head) Vase by Sachiko Furuya; Honolulu, HI. Inspired by a historical Chinese shape. Shino and Bamboo Ash glazes. Double neck with braid handle. H. 9"(23cm) x W. 6"(15.25cm.) 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...

Basket-shaped Vase or Serving Dish with braid handle, Shino and Bamboo Ash Glazes. By Sachiko Furuya, Honolulu, HI...

Vase with lug handles and hanging stick, white Shino glaze. By Sachiko Furuya, Honolulu, HI. H. 8.75"(22.25cm) x Dia. 4.5"(11.5cm.) Length of bamboo handle is 22"(56cm) and may need removal if item is shipped. 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. She also attended the College of Arts at Nihon University (Tokyo,) Suidobara Fine Arts Academy (Tokyo,) and...

Large, totemic Shigaraki vase by veteran master craftsman, Tani Seiuemon I. This impressive and well fired Shigaraki hanaire was thrown in two sections and joined to create the vase and foot of this pot made out of wonderful kinose clay from the region.

This vase measures 12.75" x 5" and is in perfect, original condition with tea cloth and original signed box.

Large Oribe style covered jar with kushime slip decoration and ring knob lid.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

13" x 7"

Generous Oribe style covered jar with impressed decoration around the body of the pot. Please note, the lid was fired on a wad that was later ground off resulting in the area you see on the bottom of the lid, it is not sharp and smooth to the touch.

Stoneware and glazes

9.25" x 7.5"

Generous stoneware yunomi with combed fence pattern, kushime decoration under a rich Oribe glaze.

Stoneware and glazes

4" x 3.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large iron yellow glazed teabowl with heavily textured sudare-zu surface. The chawan is ovoid in form and the foot was hand cut to compliment the form.

Stoneware and glazes

6.25" x 5.5" x 3.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Lyrical and whimsical porcelain tsubo by Ishira Akira with overglaze enamels in red, yellow, green and Persian blue decorating the pure white surface. The surface is covered in red enamel, aka-e style creating a floral framework for the three rabbits articulated around the circumference of the pot with accents in other shades of enamel. The brushwork is easily seen and studied and shows a delft and exceedingly experienced hand.

Ishira Akira (b. 1941) studied at the Tokyo national Univers...

Interesting and decorative porcelain tsubo with underglaze blue, sometsuke and overglaze red yuriko decoration and gold accents.

This tsubo is in fine condition and does not have a box and the potter has not been identified. The piece measures 7.25" x 6.5".

Lyrical Toruko-ao Persian style chawan with underglaze decoration of birds and flora around the outside of the bowl with a gold decorated lip and clear glazed interior. This chawan was made by Koizumi Zoho at his family kiln which he claims to go back over 650 years. It is a nice Persian bowl with a Kyoto-yaki style feel to it.

This chawan measures5.5" x 2.75" and comes complete with its original signed box. This chawan is in excellent condition though there is a small hairline which does ...

Zenga style conical summer teabowl with a attractive Jun glaze over stoneware with calligraphy on the exterior of the bowl; SEI DAI JI and then in a column, DAI Chawan (great chawan). This chawan was made at the Seidaiji temple and is reminiscent of earlier Chinese temmoku and yuteki chawan in form with a Jun glaze that has a visually soft and appealing appearance.

This chawan is stamped as well as signed and is in fine condition with out a box and measures 5.5" x 2.5".

Large kaku-gata squared teabowl form with a tetsu-yu over a temmoku glaze. The form and foot are both cut square to compliment each other.

Stoneware and glazes

This teabowl measures 4.75 across the face, 6" diagonally and 3.8" tall

Functional, decorative and food safe

Kaku-gata, squared teabowl form with combed kushime slip decoration and haiyu and temmoku glazes over. The small, pedestal foot is cut square to compliment the form.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

This teabowl measures 4.75 across the face, 5.75" diagonally and 4" tall

Functional, decorative and food safe

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

Broad, high walled teabowl glazed in temmoku with panels of my saffron and tetsu-yu glazes all over hakeme slip

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.6" X 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Elegant Shino lugged vase by veteran potter, Ando Hidetake (b. 1938). Thrown and then paddled ovoid, this simple tea ceremony vase was made of Mino mogusa clay and once stiff, the foot was hand carved to produce a fitting oval foot to compliment the form. There are wispy traces of iron under the crisp white Shino glaze meant to insinuate grasses and stemmed flowers in an ethereal Momoyama ink painting inspired manner. The form though modern, traces its roots back to the classical Momoyama era wh...

Double gourd form tokkuri, bottle with rich temmoku and tetsu-yu glazes. The foot is glazed and the remains of wad impressions are present on the foot, but smooth to the touch.

Stoneware and glazes

7.25" x 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Wood-fired Buddha Seated in Prayer Sculpture by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.6.625"(16.75cm) x W.7.25"(18.5cm) x D.4"(10cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of Te...

Wood-fired Plate, Shino & Ash Glazes, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.2.375"(6cm) x Dia.14"(35.5cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of Tea Ceremony has helped to...

Wood-fired plate by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Ash glaze, H.2.5"(6.25cm) x Dia.11.375"(29cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of Tea Ceremony has helped to shape...

Wood-fire jar, tsubo, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Ash Glaze. H.9.5"(24cm) x Dia.9.5"(24cm.) Lug handles on shoulders in style of "chatsubo," tea leaf storage jar. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea war...

Wood-fired Jar, tsubo, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Ash glaze. H.8"(20cm) x Dia.8"(20cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of Tea Ceremony has helped to shape much ...

Wood-fired Tea Bowl by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.3"(7.5cm) x Dia.4.75"(12cm.) Shino & Ash glaze. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of Tea Ceremony has helped to s...

Wood-fired Tea Bowl by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.3.125"(8cm) x Dia.4.25"(11cm.) Shino glaze. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of Tea Ceremony has helped to sha...

Wood-fired Tea Bowl by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. H.2.75"(7cm) x Dia.5"(12.5cm.) Shino, iron glaze. There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares. Their introduction to the world of Tea Ceremony has helped to...

Saffron hakeme yellow iron glazed wasp-waisted covered jar with subtle raked slip under the glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

12.25" x 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Saffron hakeme yellow iron glazed double gourd bottle vase with subtle raked slip under the glaze

Stoneware, slip and glazes

9.75" x 5.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Charcol fired, yakishime tsubo with "hana", flower designs incised on the pot by Otani (Yano) Shin-ichi

27 x 24cm

In perfect condition with original signed box and stamped cloth

Large, robust E-Shino chawan with painted underglaze iron landscape by (Shino) Yaichiro. Prominently signed; YA. Wonderful, velvety Shino glaze surface.

13.7 x 9cm

Perfect condition, NO BOX. Appears to by unused.

High sided teabowl with excised chatter design inlaid in a dark contrasting slip under an iron yellow saffron glaze

Stoneware, slips and glazes

5.25" x 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Broad, formal style teabowl with TOL, tree of life design under a saffron iron yellow glaze

Stoneware, slips and glazes

5.5" x 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large temmoku and medieval green wall bowl with a spirali e tagli pattern design across the face of the bowl. There are areas of oilspoting and other affects across the surface. This piece is made so that you have the option to hand it on the wall.

Stoneware and glazes

14.75" x 2.75"

Functional, decorative and food safe

I apologize for the poor pictures, I am a potter, not a photographer and the size and contrast made it difficult to photograph.

Large temmoku and medieval green wall bowl with a weave pattern design across the face of the bowl. There are areas of oilspoting and other affects across the surface. This piece is made so that you have the option to hang it on the wall.

Stoneware and glazes

14.5" x 2.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

I apologize for the poor pictures, I am a potter, not a photographer and the size and contrast made it difficult to photograph.

Rotund temmoku bottle, vase or tokkuri with a carved "grasses" design around the form

Stoneware and glaze

6.5" x 6"

Functional, decorative and food safe

High walled porcelain teabowl with "cogito" underglaze black and red decoration and sgraffito under a clear glaze

Porcelain, underglazes and clear glaze

4.7" x 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Pedestal style lobed and stamped teabowl with temmoku glaze (the glaze appears more like an amber glaze as it is on porcelain)

Porcelain and glaze

5.5" x 3.85"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Ido-gata Hagi chawan made to resemble a katakuchi pouring vessel. Glazed in a milky, creamy pink to beige tinged Hagi glaze, this chawan has a “ceremonial” spout applied, harkening back to the early days of chanoyu when found objects played the essential role in the ceremony. This form is common in Hagi-yaki and was made by a number of the veteran Hagi potters, including Hatano Shigetsu.

This kata-kuchi chawan was made by Hatano Shigetsu, a veteran potter in Hagi and was most likely ma...

Large waisted form teabowl with hakeme slip decoration under a clear and iron yellow glaze. Where the iron glaze ends, the glaze has run into the clear glaze forming very decorative tendrils reminiscent of Japanese ferns.

Stoneware and glazes

5.5" x 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large waisted form teabowl with heavy tataki (paddled) texture under a rich temmoku and haiyu glaze with tamadare style effects and in the style of Karatsu or Tamba chawan

Stoneware and glazes

5.5" x 3.8"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large oviod teabowl in Oribe style with medieval green glaze over hakeme slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.8" x 4.75" x 4.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Large, rounded teabowl with a bunrin-gata form with kushime combed decoration under my temmoku and haiyu glazes. The form is pushed ever so slightly ovoid to make for better drinking areas.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

5.75" x 5.5" x 4"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Tall teoke (water bucket) style vase with temmoku and running tetsu-yu glazes

Stoneware and glazes

14" x 7"

Large take-gata, bamboo form teabowl with impressed decoration under a temmoku and tetsu-yu glaze.

A video of throwing a similar teabowl can be seen on my pottery blog, please check my links page.

Stoneware and glazes

6" X 4.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

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

Wood-fired flower vase by George Gledhil; Payette, ID. Attached lugs in style of "mimi-tsuki" (ears attached) "kabin" (flower vase) of Iga-yaki. H.6.375"(16cm) x Dia.3.75"(9.5cm.) Inspired by Japanese Iga ware. H.6.375"(16cm) x Dia.3.75"(9.5cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea p...

Modern inspired chawan and mizusashi set with impressed decoration under temmoku and partridge feather glazes. The mizusashi comes with two lids; one just temmoku and the other glazed in temmoku with partridge feather accents.

Stoneware and glazes

Chawan; 4.75" X 4.25"
Mizusashi; 6.75" x 6.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Broad and full formed bottle vase with my partridge feather (yamatorige) glaze over temmoku

Stoneware and glazes

8" X 7"

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

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

Medium size terra cotta plate decorated in the tin glazed majolica style with resisted spirali e tagli design amid an abstract background. This plate can be wired to hang, please let me know if you want this option.

Terra cotta, glaze and overglazes

14.25" X 2.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Medium size terra cotta plate decorated in the tin glazed majolica style with stripes and box devices in various colored washes. This plate can be wired to hang, please let me know if you want this option.

Terra cotta, glaze and overglazes

14.25" X 2.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Katagami influenced black and white teabowl with incised VO design around the form

Porcelain, slip and glaze

5" x 4.15"

Functional, decorative and food safe