The mark of the artist is incised on base.

Size
Height 26.8cm
Width 14.8cm


In excellent condition with signed and sealed original box and leaflet.

Tatsuzo Shimaoka, a celebrated Japanese potter mentored by Shoji Hamada, achieved the pinnacle of his career when he was named a Living National Treasure of Mashiko, Japan, in 1996. Shimaoka gained renown for his distinctive Jomon Zogan (inlaid rope) pottery style...

Jomon Zogan Vase made and signed by legendary Tatsuzo Shimaoka (1919-2007) in the 1980s who became Living National Treasure in 1996.

Tatsuzo Shimaoka was a Japanese mingei potter who studied under Shoji Hamada and later became the second Living National Treasure of Mashiko in Japan.
He was best known for his unique Jōmon zogan style of pottery, and was a master of many slip decorating and firing techniques for pottery...

The second Living National Treasure of Mashiko. The first was his teacher Shōji Hamada.

A ash-glazed stoneware box and cover with an intaglio design of grasses filled with white slip. Shimaoka’s seal within the foot-rim.

Approximately 11.5 cm high, 10.3 diameter...

This is a tea bowl of Japanese OHI pottery ware, which was made about 50 years ago by famous Chozaemon Ohi (1901-1986).

It has a fantastic black glaze. The work and the box has the sign of the 9th. Chozaemon Ohi. His name is inherited from the Edo era.

The Ninth Chozaemon was the son of the Eigth Chozaemon who had been making tea utencils from age sixteen until his death at age eighty-six...

Mint and elegant tea bowl by one of the greatest potters, Rokubei Kiyomizu VI.

This Kyoto-yaki item was made 70 years ago. It has a tasteful painting of pine on it. On the bottom you find Kiyomizu's seal. The tea bowl will be delivered with its original signed wood box.

The Kiyomizu family potters managed one of the most productive workshops in Kyoto’s Gojozaka district throughout the second half of the Edo period...

TEABURI BRAZIER

Refined Japanese ceramic 'teaburi' (small hand-warmer brazier) of minimally roundish cylinder form coated with calm glossy pale glazing, early 20th century, approx. H 20 x D 17cm (7.87 x 6.69in)...

TEA CEREMONIAL POT WITH DRIPPING GLAZE

Unique and rare find of an old Japanese double-eared pottery tea utensil ware for the use of flowering or incense made of the well-burnt blackish clay containing rich in iron in the traditional but more like organic forming by refined tebineri (hand-forming) finished with such wildly dripping glaze, 19th - early 20th century, approx...

Tea Ceremony Seto Chaire Tea Caddy of cylindrical form with slightly tapering sides, covered with a light chocolate brown and a running mottled black glaze. Ivory lid lined with gold leaf on the inside. Signed: Hikari. It comes with a silk shifuku storage pouch. Size: H 9,5 x 6 cm. Taisho -Showa period. Good Condition!

This is the second valuable porcelain item of Japanese Living National and Human Treasure Tsukamoto Kaiji that we offer from our collection.

A bird and leaf patterns are molded on the plate. The seal of this great potter is stamped on the bottom...

Small cast iron tea-pot. One side is decorated with lotus flowers, the other side is without any decoration. The spout is doubled in bronze, the handle is in copper as well as the lid which has a decoration of small rounds in light relief of different patina, perhaps formerly gilded. The grip button is in silver plated copper and shakudo. It is likely that this type of jug was also used for alcohol as specified on the invoice issued by the seller in Kyoto which dates it to 1850...

Ted Colyer (b. 1947)
Winter '84
Size: 16.5 x 16.5 inches. Sheet size: 18.5 x 18.5 inches. Matte size: 21.75 x 21.75 inches.
Date: 1984.
Signed, dated, and numbered by the artist.
Medium: Japanese woodblock print.
Condition: Hinged at top back with tape to circular matte.
Canadian native Colyer studied Japanese printmaking under Toshi Yoshida.

Large incense burner made for a Buddhist temple. Square format with beautiful curves and two handles on the upper rim. Cast bronze with brown patina (sentoku), the shoulder decorated with butterflies in the clouds, done in gold and silver nunome zogan and silver wire inlay.

Japan, Edo period, 19th century

H 8.5 x W 11.75 x 11.5 in.

Unfortunately badly abused as a planter, causing water damage on the patina on the outside, and with numerous small and unobtrusive dents...

TENGU HEAD

Unique Japanese okimono of the head of 'Tengu' (Long-nosed goblin), originally an wooden mold used for making a paper-mache tengu head (because of such back cutting scar for removing paper-mache head out), then vermilion-painted after retired to lead a second life, Taisho-Showa period, early-mid 20th century, approx. 18 x 18 x Depth 19cm (7.08 x 7.08 x 7.48in). Aged deterioration, uneven paint appearance, crack, exfoliation, etc...

A matching set of 10 Imari porcelain bowls with panels of birds and cranes surrounded by a brocade border. There is a blue and white peach design in the center interior with gold highlights, and a blue marking on the bottom. The bowls measure 2" high and 6" in diameter. The bowls date to the Meiji period, Circa 1880. Condition: The condition of all bowls is excellent with some small kiln flaws, and the gold covered edges show some rubbing. Free shipping within the USA.

Ceramic "tenmoku" bowl of classical shape with thick rim and small base. Fine glazing of "hare fur" type, part of which has run down gracefully to the base. An old accident at a small area on the rim has been restored (see last two photos). China, Song Dynasty period. Height: 4,6 cm. Diameter: 10,7 cm.

A Yuteki Tenmoku Koro with wooden lid surmounted by a stone finial by Kimura Moriyasu enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 5 inches (12.5 cm) diameter and in excellent condition.
Kimura Moriyasu (b...

As mentioned before, what I love about the work of Teramoto Mamoru is it is so vivacious and full of life, full of movement. This vase has all that life and movement on a perfect, elegant form. Here also is another dimension, with the pebble textured surface breaking up the reflection of light granting a tactile quality to the silver. It comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Ginasi Hachi (Silver Glazed Bowl) complete with Shiroi and shifuku. The designs of various colors ar...

Very simple teshoku, hand-held candle stick, used for walking around. The handle made of a bamboo segment, the head made of forged iron and an iron sheet saucer. Mingei. Japan, Edo period, early 19th century. Very rare piece.

L stick 10 in.; diam saucer 2 in.

Iron corroded, bamboo with crack the does not impact the stability or beauty of the piece. Traces of usage.

From the collection (estate) of William Lipton, Ltd., New York