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Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, with thanks! An image of a warriors helmet as if just excavated from a millennium underground by Koinuma Michio enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 17.5 cm (7 inches) diameter, roughly the same height. The image s based on Haniwa funerary objects. The Haniwa are terracotta clay figures of people, animals, and houses which were deposited at Japanese tombs during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th century) in Japan...
June Hastings
$695.00 A superb bronze Japanese shishi with one paw on a pierced ball. Signed on bottom of statue. Includes wooden stand. Two holes were drilled on bottom of the fu dog to secure it to stand, see photos. Measures 4.25 inches high including stand. Bronze lion is 3.5" high. Stand is 3.5" square. Dates Meiji Era
The Kura
sold, with thanks! A set of early wood panels, once doors on a votive shrine, painted with guardian shishi lions (Also called Fu-dogs) in polychrome colors, much worn with time. The doors are of clear grained hinoki (Japanese cypress) and have shrunk horizontally over the centuries, evidenced by the ari (wooden support) which is inset into them. On back one can see clearly the silhouette of the original metal-work...
Momoyama Gallery
$695.00 One of the most attractive chawan by Ohi Chozaemon VIII (Choraku) (1902-1991) I have seen. It was made around 30 years ago in the style of Raku. The Chozaemon family of potters has been associated with the world of the Japanese tea ceremony since the 17th century. The Chozaemon lineage started with Hodoan (1631-1712), apprentice to the fourth heir of the Raku family of potters...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, with thanks! A rock textured Kurinuki tokkuri compliments this guinomi selected to match by Inayoshi Osamu enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The Tokkuri is 5 inches (12 cm) tall, the Guinomi 2-3/4 inches (7 cm) diameter and both are in perfect condition, enclosed in the original wooden box from the artist this summer.
Inayoshi Osamu was born in Aichi prefecture, the heart of Mino country, in 1976...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, with thanks! A set of five brightly colored tea cups by Kitagawa Kazuki enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kasaneirome Chawan (Tea Bowl of Layered Colors). Each is 8 cm (3-1/2 inches) diameter, 6 cm (2-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition, directly from the artist this Spring. The artist creates each of these cups individually by pouring liquified porcelain into a mold, swirling it around, allowing it to dry slightly, then pouring it out and adding another layer of differing color...
June Hastings
$695.00 Rectangular Japanese lidded box with superbly crafted gold nashiji maki-e lacquer having wonderful raised gold birds. The designs on the top continue onto all 4 sides and the attention to details are really amazing. Dates Late Edo to Early Meiji. Condition is excellent as this came from a private collection. Measures: 3" long, 2.5" wide, 2" high
Momoyama Gallery
$695.00 One of the very rare Buddhist Tea Bowls with a sculptural image of Bodhidharma Daruma. The incomparable Seto-yaki tea bowl was made at the end of 19th century and is in great antique condition with no cracks or repairs. The historical Bodhidharma (known as Daruma in Japan) was an Indian sage who lived sometime in the fifth or sixth century AD. He is commonly considered the founder of Chan (Zen) Buddhism 禅, and credited with Chan's introduction to China...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
$695.00 One of his most popular new forms, this starkly arching elevated dish is by Murakoshi Takuma is covered in white over shadows of iron with areas of thin green revealing the clay beneath, weeping giant droplets onto the swirling center. It is called a Geta-zara, named after the traditional elevated wooden sandals worn in Japan in previous eras...
Momoyama Gallery
$695.00 Slightly distorted Kuro Oribe Chawan from the mid 19th century (late Edo) made of light, coarse, unrefined Mino clay. The expertly thrown body was trimmed with a potters knife in its lower part and covered with a very deep black iron oxide glaze inside and outside...
Modern Japanese Ceramics
sold, thank you A large Serving dish covered entirely in a volatile landscape of scholars and winding mountain paths populated by towering temples and bridges spanning precipitous gaps by Shigemori Yoko enclosed in a wooden box titled Sansui E-zara. Performed with blue over a cream colored glaze, it is 33 x 35 x 3.5 cm (roughly 13 x 14 x 1-1/4 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist’s family, with a wooden box signed by her brother Naoki...
Helen M Edwards
$690.00 Height: 10.5 cm (4.2 in)
Width: 8.5 cm (3.5 in) Good Japanese Satsuma lidded koro; shows gilt bordered panels of Lohan in various domestic settings; fine diaper work throughout; signed; wear to finial; good condition
Helen M Edwards
$690.00 Height: 7 cm (2.8 in)
Width: 7 cm (2.8 in) Depth: 2.2 cm (0.9 in) Japanese metal (iron or bronze) inro with silver inlay; two section; lid modelled as a wolf; perfect condition
Helen M Edwards
$690.00 Length: 4.5 cm (1.7 in)
Height: 3.4 cm (1.4 in) Depth: 1.6 cm (0.7 in) Japanese seal converted to a netsuke; finely carved Foo Dog in natural material; this looks to have been converted very early; fine honey-coloured patina; good condition
Helen M Edwards
$690.00 Width: 5.5 cm (2.2 in)
Height: 5.5 cm (2.2 in) Weight: 205 gm Japanese Komai box; decorated with chrysanthemums and other florals; gilt interior; Fuji mark on the base; good condition Aka Raku Chawan named "Hanshan" made by Matsuo Fushunsai (1792-1830) who was the 5th generation head of Matsuo-Ryu Tea Ceremony School in Higashi-ku , Nagoya.
The box is signed by Matsuo 6th generation Iemoto Gyosai (1820-1856). The rim is gently undulated moving to the plump body...
Helen M Edwards
$690.00 Height: 31 cm (12.3 in)
Width: 14.5 cm (5.8 in) Large Japanese Satsuma vase; heavily raised gilt decoration featuring two main panels, one showing a group of men and women in a lakeside setting, the other showing samurai in confrontation; the shoulders and neck feature fine diaper-work and paulownia leaves bordered by two dragon handles; the base rim also shows intricate diaper-work; signed to the base, Hododa; good condition Takiguchi Kiheiji (b. 1937) Momoyama Style Aka Oribe Chawan.
Of irregular Kutsugata shape with unglazed foot ring. The mark of the potter is carved on the bottom. Takiguchi Kiheiji Trained under the master of Mino ware Juemon Kato and became independent in 1965. Also, after studying at Shinroku Tsuji pottery studio in Kyoto, he built a kiln in Ogaya, Mino. Moved to the U.S... |
