Koito Single Flower Vase - 12 / Blue-Green

This entirely unique small blue-green handmade ceramic vase is from Koito Pottery in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Each and every ceramic vase - whether alone or as a collection -  will be a beautiful and thoughtful gift, or accent piece for your home, and a special memory for years to come.

This vase is perfect either standalone or with a 1-2 small stems. 

Koito-yaki (Koito pottery) uses two types of clays as its “clay body”, a mixture of clays to form a specific pottery. It uses mainly the local clay dug from a mountain in Hida Furukawa, a town about 20km north of Takayama City (Gifu Prefecture, central Japan), and additionally Gairome clay (a type of kaolin) from Seto City (Aichi Prefecture, bordered by Gifu) to increase refractoriness of the clay body.

Koito pottery is basically glazed with “Irabo glaze”, which is a traditional, brown glaze and known for its somewhat coarse texture. Recently, by adding some pigments into Irabo glaze, “Ao-Irabo glaze” (‘ao’ means ‘blue’ ) has been newly developed and become the most popular glaze color among Koito pottery. Ao-Irabo glaze produces a tasteful, deep cobalt blue color—a special color which can be seen only in Koito pottery. Today, Irabo glaze has three colors: blue, brown and Uguisu (close to olive-green). These colors are created by varying mixing ratio of pigments contained in the glaze. 

Dimension: 7 x 5.5cm est.

Comes gift boxed. 

Handwash only.

Please note: As each vase is hand-made and hand-glazed, each is different. You will not necessarily receive the exact vase in the image, however all "#12" Koito vases will be a similar shape and colour profile. There may also be small imperfections in the glazing as they are hand-made, which only adds to their beautiful and unique charm.

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