5.5" high x 3.5" wide Japanese culture has reverence for tea bowls, we use mugs. On occasion a mug embodies something that makes it cost more than most. This one is from a rare sample that's close to gone and it's one that suspends the froaminifera shells as mustard-colored calcium dots. Says, "Atlantic sediment, foram-speckled galaxy of organisms. Dark Cemetary." I often think of Ocean as womb and tomb. Interior glaze is shiny brown and greenish on exterior bottom are assembled from refined materials. Red glass in thumbwell. |