Emerald copper glaze pours randomly over the sunburnt clay of this unusual lidded water container by Ishii Takahiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Mizusashi. It is It is 29 x 22.5 x roughly 16.5 cm including the lid (11-1/2 x 9 x 6-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition. Ishii Takahiro was born in Gunma prefecture in 1980 and has taken Japan by storm after graduating the Kyoto Municipal University of Art and an apprenticeship under Kakurezaki Ryuichi...

A striking vision of black blasted with ocjer glaze wrapping in rivulets around to a single beaded drop by Oiwa Tomoyuki enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled unpretentiously Chawan. It is 13.5 x 12 x 10 cm (roughly 5 x 5-1/2 x 4 inches) and in excellent condition.
Oiwa Tomoyuki was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1977, and graduated the Bizen Ceramic Center in 2004...

Purple grapes dangle behind broad autumn-tinged leaves decorating this voluminous Tsubo by Hashizume Masahide enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yubyo-kasai Yamabudo-zu O-tsubo exhibited at the 47th National Traditional Crafts Exhibition. It comes complete with the Exhibition catalog in which it is featured (page 35). It is 35 cm (14 inches) diameter and in perfect condition...

Koro size: 2 3/4" Dia x 2 3/4" High, 3 1/2" High with Silver Cover
This is Rare Japanese Ko Imari Porcelain Blue and White Koro, Incense
Burner with Jungin (Sterling Silver) Hoya (cover). Koro has Oranda-Jin forms.
(Dutch/Holland men) design work done in Sometuke. Koro is octagonal shape.
It has four Oranda-jin design windows. Other four window panel
with Geometric designs. Inside top rim area with landscape design
painted...

additional photos of Japanese Ko Imari Koro w/silver cover. Please see the Incense Burner Choko Cup Photo in the book of "Four Centuries of BLUE AND WHITE", Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain, by Becky Macguire. I have loaded the photo page of item, and one close up one.

A superior Arita Chawan decorated to the exterior with the Shochikubai, plum, pine and bamboo, in kinsai gilding. The interior painted with a dense Karakusa arabesque of auspicious Peony leaves. The foot-rim with stylised overlapping lotus leaves in underglaze blue. To the interior of the foot-ring a four character fukichosun mark. The condition is good, no damages or restoration. A kiln flaw to the foot-ring. The bowl dates to the Kyoho era circa 1720-30. It weighs 93 grams in weight...

A good early Hirado cup stand, haidai, from the Mikawachi official kiln decorated with a classic Chinese style landscape in ko sometsuke style. For a very similar example see the web site of the National Museum of Scotland V.2015.10.25, which bears the same pattern incorporating a fisherman’s refuge and drying net (left hand quarter). The construction of both this and the example in the N.M.S. is identical...

A Momoyama to early Edo period (16th-17th century) small Chawan , much worn inside, with old gold repairs gleaming softly on the iron ringed rim. Aside from this iron circle, and the wear earned over centuries on the slightly oblong shape, there is no decoration. It is 12.6 × 10.9 × 6.2 cm (5 x 4-1/4 x 2-1/2 inches) and comes wrapped in a crepe silk pouch enclosed in an old, fine quality kiri-wood box...

The size of Yellow Porcelain Bowl: 7" Dia x 3 3/8" High.
This is lovely Japanese Porcelain Bowl with Yellow Glaze.
The bowl with Chinese Qing Dynasty style.
It is made by 1st Miura Chikusen (1854-1915)
It came with Kiriwood Tomobako and Tomonuno (matched cloth).
Japanese writing on the top of Tomobako as "Kii Ji" (Yellow Porcelain)
"Hai" (Bowl). Inside Cover with "Shigetsuan" (Shigetsuan),
"Chikusen Sei"(Chikusen made) w/Chikusen Seals...

A standing lion covered in running yellow bamboo ash glaze from the Edo period kilns of Takatori on the southern Isle of Kyushu. Head held high, the smoke would vent straight out of the creatures mouth, as if exhaling the fragrant tendrils. It is 14 x 10.5 x 20 cm and is in excellent condition, enclosed in a modern kiri-wood storage box.
Takatori-yaki, is a traditional style of Japanese pottery that originated in the early 17th century. It was developed in the town of Takatori (mod...

A rare Japanese antique porcelain okimono of a skull entwined with a snake.  Made of porcelain and realistically rendered...

Roll-shaped, they present a decoration, with very fine gold and polychrome enamels, of Kannon accompanied by children and dragons on one side and couples of partridges, among flowering branches on the other. The quality of the decorations in the rectangular cartridges is excellent. All on a midnight blue background and gold flower scrolls. Mark of the Shimazu clan and in a Matsumoto Hozan gold cartouche. Height : 24 cm.

Pink belts this blue-gray bowl like the rising sun reflected off a pre-dawn cloud by Yamato Tsutomu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi Chawan and featured in the 59th National Traditional Crafts Exhibition (catalog page 65, catalog included). It is 15.5 cm (6 inches) diameter and in perfect condition.
Yamato Tsutomu was born the second son of Yamato Yasuo, the man who brought Hagi into the 20th century, in 1965. He graduated the Yamaguchi University of Arts in 1988...

A pink sunset band rings this Caribbean blue bowl by Yamato Tsutomu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Hagi Chawan. It is gorgeous to behold, wide and comfortable in the hands, perfect for tea in the warm seasons. It is 15 cm ((6 inches) diameter, 9 cm (3-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Yamato Tsutomu was born the second son of Yamato Yasuo, the man who brought Hagi into the 20th century, in 1965. He graduated the Yamaguchi University of Arts in 1988. ...

A gorgeous set of five clam-shell Shaped dishes in organic Chossen Karatsu glaze by Koga Kenji enclosed in the original compartmentalized signed wooden box titled Chossen Karatsu Hamaguri Mukozuke. Each dish is roughly 14 x 16 cm (5-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches) and all are in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Koga Kenji was born in Fukuoka in 1936, but did not start potting until much later in life, at the age of 38. He opened his own kiln in 1991, exhibiting with the prefectural exhi...

A traditional wide basin decorated with staggering pine in iron by Nakazato Tarouemon XIV enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled E-Karatsu Hachi. It is 26 cm (10-1/4 inches) diameter 11 cm (4-1/4 inches) tall and in excellent condition. Nakazato Taouemon XIV wa born the eldest son of Nakazato Taouemon XIII in 1957. He completed graduate school at the Department of Sculpture at Musashino Art University in 1981. He returned ot the family studio in 1983 and began making pottery. I...

The size of Bowl: 7” Dia x 1 1/4” High (177 mm x 32 mm)
This is fine and attractive Japanese Ko Imari Porcelain Sometsuke Bowl
from Early 19 century,
Bunka Bunsei Period, Bunka (1804-17). Bunsei (1818-1829).
The bowl is made of Sometsuke (Blue and White) with the design
of Oranda Jin (Holland Jin) with Rakuda (Camel). The design were
finely painted blue underglaze. The border design of bowl has
the leaf design are done in SHIRONUKI technique which leave