{"product_id":"vintage-japanese-kyoto-studio-vase-sabi-textured-stoneware-gold-leaf-kinsai-accents-ash-drip-rim-handmade","title":"Vintage Japanese Kyoto Studio Vase, Sabi Textured Stoneware, Gold Leaf Kinsai Accents, Ash Drip Rim, Handmade","description":"\u003cp\u003eWide-mouthed and full-bodied, this Japanese studio vase sets two contrasting textures against each other on the same surface: broad combed (kushime) bands of rough, unglazed stoneware, some rubbed through with gold leaf so the metal catches unevenly in the grooves, alternate with smoother sabi-toned fields carrying a delicate incised vine — a thin trailing line strung with small pressed blossom stamps and tiny rings, like a single branch drawn loosely across the pot's shoulder. At the mouth, a soft, crackled ash-drip glaze in pale celadon tones spills over the rolled rim, the only fully glazed surface on an otherwise deliberately raw body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pairing of rough-fired stoneware with refined gold accenting is a hallmark of the Kyoto ceramic tradition (Kyo-yaki), a school known less for one house style than for constant experimentation across techniques — from crackled emerald celadon to gold-brushed rims to kinsai, the practice of hand-applying gold liquid or leaf onto a fired surface, most often used to pick out a rim, a highlight, or a textured passage the way it does here. Rather than smoothing over the pot's raw, granular clay, the gold draws attention to it — a very Kyoto instinct, treating rusticity as something worth dressing up rather than disguising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vase carries a small paper maker's seal reading tezukuri (手づくり, \"handmade\"), the kind of marking Japanese studio potters and workshops use to distinguish genuinely hand-thrown, hand-finished work from factory production — a small but meaningful detail for anyone building a collection of authentic studio-made Japanese ceramics rather than reproduction ware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt arrives in its original wooden tomobako, the lid inscribed o-kabin (御花瓶, \"vase,\" with an honorific prefix) alongside a maker's signature in flowing script and a red seal. Between the raw combed texture, the gold leaf worked directly into it, and the quiet blossom vine tying the surface together, this is a piece built to reward slow looking — a study in restraint dressed, just barely, in gold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chikoyaki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46348888277071,"sku":"CKY-CER-5232","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0667\/6588\/1423\/files\/IMG_E7547_result.jpg?v=1785841457","url":"https:\/\/chikoyaki.com\/products\/vintage-japanese-kyoto-studio-vase-sabi-textured-stoneware-gold-leaf-kinsai-accents-ash-drip-rim-handmade","provider":"Chikoyaki","version":"1.0","type":"link"}