Chris Rupp on wed 21 jan 04
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to let you all know that there is a Hamada bottle currently on
Ebay. Every once in a long while there is a piece or two. However, this is
the nicest one that I have seen in the past five years. The piece has his
limestone clear glaze with nuka ladle pours and his signature "sugarcane"
iron brushwork decoration.
I thought most of you would like to see it and maybe there is someone on
Clayart who has that perfect spot on their mantle, just waiting for this
piece!
In past recent auctions, similar pieces WITH a signed box have sold for
$6,000 +. Pieces that do not have their original box usually sell for 1/2
less. So I would estimate this piece being worth at least $2800-4000.
However, it could sell for much less and unfortunately I won't be buying it
myself!
Here is the link, ENJOY!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2590379410&category=37940
Chris
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Lee Love on thu 22 jan 04
Chris Rupp wrote:
>
> In past recent auctions, similar pieces WITH a signed box have sold for
> $6,000 +. Pieces that do not have their original box usually sell for 1/2
> less. So I would estimate this piece being worth at least $2800-4000.
> However, it could sell for much less and unfortunately I won't be
> buying it
> myself!
Hamada's son, Shinsaku, has done identification and box signing in the
past. I heard it cost a couple hundred for his service. I don't
know if he still does it. I can't help with it either, I've not
met Shinsaku Hamada yet.
There is a grandmother who runs a pottery shop in Mashiko who
has some expensive examples of some of contemporaries of Hamada's on
display. But what she does is says: This Murata Gen work is very
expensive, but his Mago-deshi's ( apprentice grandchild) work is very
good too, and it is very inexpensive. What a sales laday. :-)
Lee in Mashiko http://mashiko.org/pottery/img31.htm <- See my
kokubin. Very inexpensive. ;-)
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Lois Ruben Aronow on thu 22 jan 04
> I wanted to let you all know that there is a Hamada bottle currently =
on
> Ebay. Every once in a long while there is a piece or two. However, =
this is
> the nicest one that I have seen in the past five years. The piece has =
his
> limestone clear glaze with nuka ladle pours and his signature =
"sugarcane"
> iron brushwork decoration.
Although it's nice, it is probably not Hamada. The description calls it
"Hamada-style". =20
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