A tall lampshade in pale cream clay, rising to a crown of three points around an open top. Raised bands of clay ripple around the body like waves, and between them the walls are pierced by hand with dots, teardrops, hearts and triangles. Down the front runs a single smooth column left uncut — a quiet spine through all that movement.
Across the clay sweep broad flushes of scarlet, hidasuki — 'fire cords' — where rice straw was laid against the piece in the kiln, deepening to a glossy red-brown on the crown. Lit from within, the pale walls glow warm and light rises through the open top.
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: 250 mm
Width: 110 mm
Weight: 810 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
