竹下鹿丸 幽白磁茶盌 斗々屋 6cm/Height 11

6cm/Height 11

which looks straight ahead no matter where you look at it from 180 degrees

A work that evokes the beauty of Goryeo tea bowls

and a dragon is drawn in silver on the front

the bowl is coated with a white slip to create a soft kohiki ground

竹下鹿丸 幽白磁茶盌 斗々屋 6cm/Height 11This is the latest Yhakuj chawan by Shikamaru Takeshita, a ceramic artist based in Mashiko. Although made of porcelain, this bowl has a soft, luminous surface, with a faint bluish tone that carries a distinctive landscape of the kiln. Here and there, crater like undulations appear across the surface, allowing traces of the fire to emerge quietly within the serene white body. As the bowl is turned in the hand, areas of black carbonization come gently