Lavender Blue Glazed Tea Bowl — Shoun-gama Pine Cloud Kiln Chawan with Tomobako

Experience authentic Japanese tea ceramics with this Lavender Blue Glazed Tea Bowl from Shoun-gama. This Pine Cloud Kiln Chawan serves as a Japanese Matcha Bowl and Jun-yao Inspired Chawan, featuring Opalescent Blue Glaze and Cloudy Lavender Finish—a must-have for any collector seeking Ash Glaze Pottery and Tea Ceremony Vessels.

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🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]

• Artist: Shoun-gama (松雲釜 / Pine Cloud Kiln)
• Technique: Ash-based or Jun-yao inspired blue glaze — opalescent, cloudy surface
• Era: Contemporary
• Origin: Japan
• Dimensions: W 12 cm × H 7 cm (4.7" × 2.8")
• Box: Tomobako inscribed with kiln name 松雲釜
• Condition: Good — clean, no chips or repairs

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🔹 [ CULTURAL & ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]

There are glazes that declare their color, and there are glazes that hold it in suspension — hovering between states, never quite resolving into a single hue. The lavender-blue surface of this Shoun-gama tea bowl belongs to the second category. It does not announce. It shifts: pale blue under overhead light, faint purple at the rim, grey-blue in shadow. The opalescent quality suggests a Jun-yao (鈍窯) lineage — that ancient Chinese tradition of copper- and iron-bearing glazes that produce blues and purples through kiln atmosphere rather than painted pigment.

The bowl’s compact form — 12 cm across and 7 cm tall — creates an intimate vessel. Slightly smaller than a standard chawan, it sits in the hands with a quiet density, the deep rounded walls enclosing space the way cupped palms hold water.

*"Between blue and lavender, the glaze holds its breath — neither one color nor the other, but the silence between them."*

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🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]

**Jun-yao Resonance**: The opalescent blue-lavender glaze draws on a lineage stretching back to Song dynasty China (960–1279), where Jun ware kilns produced some of the most elusive glazes in ceramic history. Jun glazes achieve their color through phase separation — microscopic particles suspended within the glaze scatter light, producing the cloudy quality that cannot be replicated by surface pigment.

**The Cloudy Surface**: What distinguishes this bowl’s glaze is its refusal to be uniform. Subtle variations shift across the surface — denser blue-grey on the body, hints of purple near the rim, fine speckling where the glaze chemistry reached different temperatures.

**Compact Chawan Form**: At 12 cm, this bowl is slightly more compact than the standard tea bowl. This smaller scale creates an intimacy in use — the bowl fits naturally within the curve of both palms, and the deep, rounded walls retain heat effectively.

**Pine Cloud Kiln — Naming as Philosophy**: Shoun (松雲) — pine and cloud — evokes the classical aesthetic of mountain landscapes in ink painting: the pine rooted in stone, the cloud passing through without attachment. This bowl’s atmospheric glaze materializes that image.

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🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]

【基本情報】
• 作家：松雲釜
• 技法：灰釉系または鈍窯写し青釉
• 時代：現代
• 産地：日本
• 寸法：幅約12cm × 高さ約7cm
• 付属：共箱（「松雲釜」の書付）
• 状態：良好

【解説】
本作の淡い青紫の釉薬は、中国宋代の鈍窯の系譜を想起させます。正面からは淡い水色、縁では仄かな紫、影の中では青灰色に変わり、一つの色に定まることを拒むかのようです。

口径12cmという小振りな寸法は、手の中での親密さを生みます。「松雲」という窯名が示すのは、松に掛かる雲——固いものと溶けゆくものの境界です。

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🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ]
• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days
• Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking)
• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials

*Pine and cloud — the kiln named what the glaze would become.*