Makie water vessel (mizu-sashi) is used in Japanese tea ceremony for filling water to a kettle and for washing tea bowls. The uniqueness of the Makie is that the Japanese pampas grasses are used for outer side of vessel. You can use this for various porpose such as flower arrangement.
The vessel and the lid are all painted with urushi lacquer and have a solid warm touch.
The vessel is shaped with the layered thin clothes with the urushi lacquer first, and is covered with the half split stems of pampas grass, and layered with the thin cloth with the urushi lacquer again, then painted with the urushi lacquer many times. The outer side of vessel is painted with the white urushi lacquer and the black urushi lacquer on top of it. By polishing up the side of vessel, the white urushi lacquer naturally appeared on the gnarl portion of the pampas glass and becomes the unique white pattern on the vessel. Any questions? Feel free to clontact us.
The reverse side of the lid has a picture of a kingfisher just flew over a river. The kingfisher and the waves of river are all drawn with the gold makie. By changing the size of gold powders, the wave color and bird color have different color taste. The top of lid is covered with the smooth black urushi lacquer.
Diameter 18.0cm, Height 18.0cm. Art works of Sanao Matsuda
Material: Layered clothes with urushi lacquer, pampas grass, urushi lacquer, gold powders.
