The piece
Ink-wash snow landscape wraps the bowl, with a pearl-chain band below. Dual-use tea or rice bowl, mountains and rivers in daily life.
Reading the snow
The small bowl carries an ink-wash snow landscape, outer belly decorated with a pearl-chain band—like a string of lanterns hung on a snow night. Landscape on the bowl, pearl-chain on the rim, echoing above and below, plain yet considered.
The difficulty of painting bowls is ‘withdrawing’: as the belly narrows, composition must decrease with the vessel, distant mountains fading to snow exactly at the rim. The pearl-chain requires equal-diameter equal-spacing beads, hand-painted yet not losing the rule—basic training.
One-of-a-kind, unique. The bowl can hold tea (matcha, hot infusions like a tea-warmer all suit), or small foods, or serve as a brush-washer—multiple uses is an old scholar’s-desk tradition.
H5 ⌀8.3 cm, a winter morning bowl of hot congee, or a water vessel in a tea table corner. Snow scene sets off hot food; cold and warm annotate each other.
From the studio
Landscape wraps the bowl, pearl-chain binds the base. Within daily use, own mountains and rivers.
Private enquiry
Each piece is painted entirely by hand, without moulds, and exists only once. The guide price in AUD is shown on this page. Current availability is confirmed by email before any arrangement is made.