Peter Callas (American, b. 1952), Five Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Anagama wood-fired stoneware, three featuring natural ash glaze including two of similar form appear wheel turned (5 1/2 in. diameter) and the tallest likely handbuilt (4 1/2 in.); a fourth example with gray oni hage style glaze (4 in.), and the fifth with gray and white striped glaze. (4 in.). All unsigned.

Sold to benefit the Yale University Art Gallery collection

Master ceramicist and sculptor, Peter Callas, is based in New Jersey. His work can be found in numerous prestigious public and private collections worldwide including the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts; Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon France; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; and V&A Museum, London, England, among many others. Callas's expressionist wood fired clay sculptures, vessels, and pottery forms are inspired by nature:

"Nature’s surfaces are the constant touchstone and catalyst serving my artistic vision with deliberation and a carefully cultivated receptiveness to the capabilities and caprices of clay."

Peter has held numerous solo exhibitions of his work, including recently at Belger Crane Art Studios, Kansas City, Missouri (2022); Elder Contemporary Art Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina (2022); American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California (2022); and Schacht Gallery, Saratoga Clay Art Center, Saratoga, New York (2020).

Gray and white with cracks and repairs; otherwise good condition.