All Items : Artists : Glass : Contemporary item #1482618
A striking sake set by Okushima Keiji consisting of a glass Tokkuri embedded and a glass Guinomi sake cup mixed with porcelain and lacquered inside with silver leaf, each enclosed in their original signed wooden boxes. When I first saw his work, although made of glass, I had the impression that it was made by a potter, and Keiji attempts to bridge these mediums, with the addition of lacquer and gold/silver leaf, applied, baked, charred, to create art works never before seen...
All Items : Artists : Glass : Pre 2000 item #1482617
A small powerful work in clear glass covered in spiraling silver foil with a lid of opaque black by Ogawa Kaoru enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Ruri Koro. The piece is supported on three feet which seem to drip like black honey from the bottom while the same black crowns the six-sided form, rising in flutes to the finial. It is 13 cm (just over 5 inches) tall and in excellent condition...
All Items : Artists : Glass : Contemporary item #1383219 (stock #1236)
A pool of green and gold veined with black and spotted with white on a morphic form by Kobayashi Mitsugi enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 8 x 6 inches (20 x 15 x 4 cm) and in excellent condition. Kobayashi Mitsugi, born in Aichi, graduated the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts...
All Items : Artists : Glass : Contemporary item #1383253 (stock #1237)
Scales of color overlap in the crystal basin of this oblong form by Kobayashi Mitsugi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Mosaic Mon Sara (mosaic pattern dish). It is 8 x 6-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches (21 x 16.5 x 3.5 cm) and in excellent condition.
Kobayashi Mitsugi, born in Aichi prefecture in 1932, and graduated the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts...
All Items : Artists : Glass : Pre 2000 item #1383368 (stock #1241)
A lidded bottle of hand blown blue glass with a white stripe swirling up to a ball-lilke bung of clear with a white center by Nakashima Yasushi It is 7 inches (18 cm) tall plus the lid, and in excellent condition. Perfect for chilled summer sake, signed on the base Y. Nakashima.
Nakashima Yasushi (1938-2017) was born in Hyogo prefecture and graduated the Kyoto Municipal University of Art in 1962. While still at university he was accepted into the Mainichi Kogyo Design exhibition...
All Items : Artists : Glass : Contemporary item #1441022
Broken glass pieces are joined back together on these amazing Tea Containers by rising star Nishinaka Yukito enclosed in the original signed wooden boxes. These are an excellent example for his famed "Kintsugi" series...
All Items : Artists : Glass : Functional : Contemporary item #1027215 (stock ##7073)
Vivid glass mizusashi with white swirls encased within the glass and brilliant accents of pure gold leaf fused to the glass surface. The mizusashi measures 7" X 5.25"

This boxed glass mizusashi is by Tanaka Tsuneo and is in perfect condition complete with its lacquer lid and signed wooden storage box. This piece has an etched signature on the bottom of the mizusashi that was difficult to photograph.