Rustic Zen Pottery Jar

Product Introduction:

This handmade wood-fired rustic ceramic flower vase, with its unique Wabi-sabi Zen ancient simplicity aesthetic, can serve as a Japanese tea ceremony mizusashi or an elegant decorative art object, showcasing the beauty of aged pottery craftsmanship.

This pot has an aesthetic of simplicity and vitality.Its shape is full, with rounded lines, combining simplicity and elegance.The surface is rich in texture, with varying shades of glaze and rough clay texture, as if it were the workmanship of nature, and as if it were the traces left behind by the years.The overall effect is a peaceful and calm Zen, reflecting the wabi-sabi aesthetics of appreciation for imperfection and impermanence.

Usage Scenarios:

- Tea Ceremony: Can be used as a water container, a flower container, or to hold tea utensils such as a teatrope or teaspoon.

- Home Decoration: Place it on the sideboard or low table in the entrance, study or living room as a stand-alone art piece to enhance the style of the space.

- Floral: Use with a few Zen flowers, such as dead branches, moss, single flowers, to create a Japanese style flower arrangement.

- Collections: Collect as ceramic artefacts with unique artistic value.

- Meditation Space: Place in a meditation or yoga area to create a peaceful atmosphere.

Style:

- Wabi-Sabi: Aesthetics that focuses on nature, fragmentation, simplicity and tranquility.

- Zen Style: Pursuing tranquillity, simplicity and introspection.

- Rustic/Primitive: Rugged and elegant, returning to the nature.

- Japanese Style: Reflects the importance of material, feel and mood in traditional Japanese objects.

Materials:

- Rough Clay / Earthenware.

- Potentially iron-rich clay.

- Unglazed or partially thinly glazed, fired at high temperatures to create natural ash glaze or kiln- transformation effects.transformation effects).

Craftsmanship:

- Hand-thrown or Hand-formed: Unique hand-made marks.

- Wood-fired / Anagama Kiln Firing: This is the most likely process in which wood ash falls onto the surface of the vessel, creating a natural ash glaze and fire marks that give the vessel its distinctive kiln transformation effects and texture.This process also explains the rough, natural, irregular surface.

- High-temperature Firing: The process of making the clay solid and dark in colour.

Purpose/Function:

- Ornamental: Displayed individually as a work of art.

- Flowerware: Used for flower arrangements, especially Japanese or Zen flower arrangements.

- Tea Ceremony Tools: such as water fingers and tea containers.

- Storage (decorative): can be used to put some dry small objects, but the main function is decorative.