A chawan by Shoki — hand-pinched from coarse stoneware, fired to a quiet argument between two glazes.
🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ] • Artist: Shoki • Origin: Japan • Material: Stoneware with yellow and iron glazes • Motif: Yellow and Iron Glaze Contrast • Era: 2000_2024 • Box: Tomobako (artist's wooden presentation box) • Condition: Good, carefully inspected
🔹 [ Cultural & Artistic Insight ] The yellow glaze settles across the body in uneven pools, warm as late-afternoon light through paper screens. Against it, iron glaze moves in a dark band around the waist — not applied so much as allowed, a decision made in the kiln. Where the two meet, the boundary softens into rust and amber, the kind of color that has no name in English.
The form is deliberately unhurried. The rim rises and dips as the hand left it. The small foot is rough, almost reluctant — the bowl seems to have been pulled from the earth rather than shaped upon it. In the interior, the yellow glaze has pooled at center, tracing the spiral of the maker's thumb.
🔹 [ Deep-Dive Commentary ] This is wabi expressed through restraint: two materials, one firing, a landscape that took no effort to manufacture.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔹 [ DETAILS ] • Artist: Shoki (勝喜) — signed on tomobako lid with red seal • Type: Chawan (matcha tea bowl) • Form: Hand-pinched (tezukuri) • Glaze: Yellow glaze (ki-gusuri) with iron glaze (tetsu-gusuri) band • Dimensions: Mouth diameter 12.1 cm / Height 8.7 cm • Condition: Excellent (美品) — no chips, cracks, or repairs • Provenance: Comes with original signed tomobako (wooden box) and tomobuno (yellow silk pouch)
🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ] • Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days • Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking) • Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials
