A lampshade shaped like a falling drop, swelling round at the base and rising to a fine point at the top. Its walls are pierced by hand with flower rosettes — a round centre ringed with teardrop petals — along with drifting petal and heart shapes and winding trails of dots. Lit from within, the whole surface blooms in warm gold.
The kiln fired the pale sand clay with sweeping flushes of flame orange and soft smoky grey, darkening to rust red toward the tip. A small notch is cut into the foot.
Unglazed Bizen stoneware, wood-fired in one continuous firing near Bizen, Okayama (GPS 34.7456°N, 134.1894°E). Its colour and markings are kiln transformation (yōhen) — the record of earth and flame in a single moment, not a pattern anyone chose. One of a kind, shaped by human hands, and impossible to reproduce. Traceable to the kiln that made it.
Dimensions
Height: 165 mm
Width: 125 mm
Weight: 505 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
