Cobalt breaks across the rim like deep water meeting stone. Below, the soda vapor has left its mark: a warm, toasted surface where bare clay and glaze negotiate their boundary.
Inside, a luminous green pool settles into the bowl's center, shifting from teal to jade depending on the light.
The foot is hand-carved with a spiral pattern and signed
Soda-fired stoneware. Shino and Reitz green glazes. Each piece in a soda kiln firing is shaped by the path of sodium vapor through the kiln — no two pieces can ever be the same.
5.75" x 2.75" Functional and food safe. Works beautifully as a chawan for tea ceremony, a vessel for small seasonal arrangements, or simply as an object to hold and contemplate.
