Three small bottles standing shoulder to shoulder, joined into one — seen from above, they form a soft three-leafed clover. Each has its own narrow mouth, so a single arrangement can rise from three points: a branch, a flower and a blade of grass, side by side.
The kiln fired the clay a deep toasted brown with a soft sheen, warming to amber on one shoulder and darkening to plum near the foot. Fine dark lines of flame sweep across the bottles like brushstrokes, and where the three meet at the top, ash gathered into a small pool of pale glass. Look closely and the maker's fingerprints are fired into the clay.
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: 132 mm
Width: 129 mm
Mouth: 23 mm
Capacity: 580 ml (total)
Weight: 590 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
