In researching tea ceremony for a client I came across a ceramics show held at the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art at Piedmont College. It is a beautiful museum and the curators are friendly and knowledgeable. I was asked by some friends to make a few pictures so I decided to blog it.

JAPANESE POTTERY

The rising generation from traditional Japanese kilns

Arita and Karatsu Ware – Imaizumi Masato – Porcelain bowl with maple leaf motif in black, blue, and silver

Hagi Ware – Yomato Tsutomu – Bowl with engobe and gold leaf decor

Hagi Ware – Nakazato Taki – Decorated Karatsu fresh-water jar

Hagi Ware – Nakazato Taki – Nanban jar

Hagi Ware – Miwa Kazuhiko – Dreams in White

Hagi Ware – Kaneta Masanao – Pounded, hand-hollowed vase with engobe

Hagi Ware – Kaneta Masanao – Pounded, hand-hollowed vase with white glaze and kiln effects

Hagi Ware – Kaneta Masanao – Pounded, hand-hollowed vase with white glaze and kiln effects – Detail

Bizen Ware

Kyoto vicinity and Tamba – Okumura Hiromi – White glazed “vessel”

Kyoto vicinity and Tamba – Ichino Genwa – Platter with slip decor

Bizen Ware – Yamamoto Ryuichi – Vase with kiln effects

Kyoto vicinity and Tamba Ware – Ichino Masahiko – Vessel with .inear motif

Kutani and Kanazawa Ware – Ohi Toshio – Ceremonial vessel, Ohi glaze

Kutani and Kanazawa Ware – Ohi Toshio – Fresh-water jar, Ohi white Raku glaze

Kutani and Kanazawa Ware – Miyanishi Atsushi – Blue-glazed vase with wave motif

Kutani and Kanazawa Ware – Yoshida Yukio – Large bowl with overglaze enamel and gold decor

Seto and Mino Ware – Hori Toshiro – Iron-glazed jar

Seto and Mino Ware – Saki Hiroshi – Bluish Shino Jar

Seto and Mino Ware – Suzuki Satoru – Large Oribe Jar – Detail

Seto and Mino Ware – Suzuki Satoru – Large Oribe Jar

Seto and Mino Ware – Hori Toshiro – Iron glazed Jar

Seto and Mino Ware – Hori Toshiro – Iron glazed Jar – Detail

Seto and Mino Ware – Nagae Shigekazu – Glazed vessel built of thin layers

Seto and Mino Ware – Nagae Shigekazu – Glazed vessel built of thin layers – Detail

Seto and Mino Ware – Kurosawa Yuichi – Large Oribe bowl – Detail

Seto and Mino Ware – Ito Hidehito – Oribe bowl

Tokyo vicinity and Mashiko Ware – Hirose Yoshiyuki – “Soaring” large square plate with overglaze and enamel decor – Detail

Tokyo vicinity and Mashiko Ware – Nisaka Mitsukuni – Unglazed bowl with slip decor

Arita and Karatsu Ware – Inoue Yasunori – Bowl in overglaze enamels with carved decor

The installation runs through the end of January. A special reception featuring a gallery talk by Ohi Toshio, one of the artists included in the show, will be held from 5–7 p.m., Jan. 22., 2015. He is an eleventh generation Ohi Master.

Ohi Toshio has even given a Ted Talk