🎎 Modern Japanese Sake Cup with Layered Ash & Iron Glaze – Japan Antique Roadshow

🎎 A luminous modern sake cup, alive with molten color and depth. At first glance, its watery blue-green tones suggest celadon—but this is no quiet jade relic. Instead, it’s a contemporary studio work, where glaze meets gravity to produce a dramatic fusion of teal, olive, and earthy brown.

Crafted in the tradition of modern Japanese kiln experimentation, this piece blends ash-glaze effects with Tenmoku-inspired depth. Iron-rich browns settle like silt at the basin, surrounded by sweeping waves of high-silica glaze that pool into vibrant aquamarine at the rim. The surface gleams like a mountain lake at dawn—fluid, reflective, and impossible to replicate.

This cup is likely unused, though it bears a small chip on the lip—perhaps the reason it never entered daily rotation. And yet, the imperfection suits its spirit: a studio-made vessel that favors natural movement over rigid perfection.

📏 Approximate dimensions

• Diameter (lip): 7.2 cm

• Diameter (foot): 3.3 cm

• Height: 3.2 cm

• Weight: 70 g

• Condition: New/unused with a single minor rim chip

• Age: Contemporary (estimated within the last 20–30 years)

• Glaze style: Layered iron + ash glaze fusion; Tenmoku influence with celadon-like pooling

Curated in Shizuoka City by Kurt Bell, this cup invites quiet admiration or daily use—offering a touch of Japan’s living ceramic tradition, shaped not only by fire, but by the curiosity of the hands that made it.

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