A sculptural flower vase that rises from a wide, flaring base into three slender tubes of different heights, leaning gently apart like reeds at the water's edge. Each tube is its own opening, so a single arrangement can stand at three heights — a tall stem in the centre, shorter ones to either side.
The kiln fired the clay a deep chocolate brown with a soft sheen, darkening to iron and a silvery, almost metallic gloss across the broad base. Throwing rings circle the tubes, and the clay was pressed and smoothed by hand where they meet.
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: 142 mm
Width: 146 mm
Mouth: 20 mm
Capacity: 200 ml
Weight: 540 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
