Vintage Japanese pottery sake cup Attributed to Kawai Kanjiro #5534

width: approx. 7.5cm (3.0in)
height: approx. 6.5cm (2.6in)
weight: approx. 154g (w/box 235g)
condition: No cracks or chips. There are organic variations natural to historical firing, such as small glaze skips, pinholes. Please refer to the photos.
Accessories: stumped wooden box
Shipping: Shipped from Japan with a tracking number. We take great care in professional packaging to ensure the item arrives safely.

This exquisite Japanese guinomi sake cup evokes a deep sense of emotion, where vibrant tones of brown, vivid green, and crimson red melt into the depths of jet-black darkness. While compact in size, it possesses a powerful, upright form, with its greatest highlight being the dynamic movement of the glaze cascading across the vessel's surface. A heavy, obsidian-black glaze serves as the base, overlaid with a striking green glaze reminiscent of fresh young leaves sprouting from a rugged mountainside. Accents of deep, iron-like red infuse the entire piece with a dramatic, life-giving vitality. This intricate layering of glazes—woven through a perfect harmony of chance and necessity within the kiln—reveals a completely different expression depending on the angle of the light.