Large Modern Japanese Tsubo by Kawai Toru

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Contemporary: item #1111626
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A flamboyant vase by Kawai Toru enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled: Gosu Mentori Ashitsuki Tsubo. Outside the vase is covered in Gosu blue, inside contrasted with iron red. The shape is all Toru, an artist who took the work of Kanjiro and moved beyond, as represented in this large tri-legged tsubo. The vase is 14 inches (35 cm) tall, roughly 12 inches (30 cm) diameter and in perfect condition.
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Bizen ware ball shape vase by TOKUMA Watanabe

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Contemporary: item #1111313
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A large and rather unusual vase of Bizen-ware in ball-shaped form by the young artist Watanabe Takuma. The piece is made by overlapping bands in low relief interspersed with sections decorated with patterns emulating weaving. It has the typical Bizen earthern colours with patches of grey. Signed mark of Takuma. Document for the piece with information on the artist. Made after 2004. H. 20 cm, D. 22 cm. Condition: Perfect. * Watanabe Takuma (b. 1968). Graduated in 1991 after which he began his app... Click for details

A Japanese Studio Vase-Mottled Glaze –Taisho/Showa

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Pre 1970: item #1111247
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This handsome studio vase dates from sometime between the 1920s and the 1950s. It has a particularly attractive glaze. The underglaze appears to be a tan glaze at the lower section of the vase – then a dark brown glaze on the tapered section at the top. Then an iron design of plants was drawn on the tan glaze at the bottom half. After that, it would seem that a different ivory colored glaze was applied to the vase that was formulated to make bubbles that pop open during the firing. The net resul... Click for details

Contemporary Japanese Pottery Vase, Kawai Toru

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Contemporary: item #1110831
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A voluptuous sculpted vase by pottery master Kawai Toru enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is a large vase with swirling divets scooped out of the sides. The piece is 10-1/2 inches (26.5 cm) tall, 8-1/2 inches (21.5 cm) diameter and in perfect condition.
Toru was born in 1941, the son of Kawai Takeichi. He apprenticed jointly under his father and Grandfather in 1964, making him the last disciple of K... Click for details

Modern Japanese Chawan Tea Bowl by Kawai Toru

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Contemporary: item #1110830
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A thick sided gosu Mentori Chawan by Kawai Toru enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The bowl is quite large, with deeply sculpted sides covered in rose with iron rim and base. Inside is crackled white with some infusion of color with use. The box is a dome-lidded Shiho kiri box of fine quality, titled and signed within. Judging by the hi-iro of the base the artist has used a blended Shigaraki clay. The bowl is 5-3/4 inches (14.5 cm) diameter, 3-1/2 inches (9 cm) tall and in excellen... Click for details

Modern Japanese Ki-Seto Tsubo by LNT Kato Kozo

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Contemporary: item #1110525
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A mustard colored pebble textures the raw clay of this Yellow Seto (kiseto) tsubo by Japanese Living National Treasure Kato Kozo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The vase is roughly 5 inches (12.5 cm) tall and in excellent condition.
Kato Kozo was born in Gifu in 1935, a gifted oil painter he studied the Mino Traditioin under Kato Kohei and Living National Treasure Arakawa Toyozo. He has been displayed... Click for details

Contemporary Shigaraki Vase by Otani Shiro

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Contemporary: item #1110524
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A thick green shizen-yu ash glaze covers the form of this heavy walled Shigaraki pot by important artist Otani Shiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Never redundant, the Shigaraki clay bursts colorful under the intense flame. Tea‚’-drops of green glass wrap liquid about the body, exposing the red burnt clay and shell forms left where it sat on its side in the kiln. The vessel is 10-1/2 inches (27 cm) tall and in perfect condition, dating circa 1995. Shiro was born in 1936, and st... Click for details

Otani Shiro Contemporary Shigaraki Tsubo

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Contemporary: item #1110124
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Charred ash deposits are baked into the side of this large Tsubo by Shigaraki Representative Otani Shiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Rivulets strike out from the heat blasted face, the coloring pleasing on all sides. The Tsubo is 10-1/2 inches (26 cm) diameter, 9 inches (23 cm) tall and in perfect condition.
Shiro (born 1936), of Shigaraki, was a student of Living National Treasure Shimizu Uichi a... Click for details

A Seto Ware Vase in the Art Nouveau Style: Shunji Kato

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Pre 1980: item #1109714

Seto ware is classified as ‘Nihon Rokkoyo’or ‘Chuse Rokkoyo’—one of medieval Japan’s six traditionally recognized ceramic types, and it is the pottery associated with Aichi Prefecture. The elegant vase offered here represents a highly unusual marriage of the traditional Seto ware glaze and clay to an Art Nouveau form, an original work by the 2nd Shunji Kato (1892-1979). A native of Seto City, Shunji assumed his master’s name in 1926 and later produced wares for the Matsuo-ryu school of tea. I... Click for details

A Japanese Yayoi Style Anthropomorphic Vessel

Japanese: Ceramics: Stoneware Pre 1970: item #1109657
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This is a fascinating pottery vessel with a human face. It was purchased as dating from the Yayoi period of Japan. However, consultations with two experts on early Japanese ceramics have advised me that this is NOT from that period. It follows, then, that the piece must be a 19th-20th century vessel done in a style reminiscent of that period’s pottery. Regardless of the true dating, we found it to be a delightful piece of pottery. ... Click for details