Vintage Japanese Small Brown Mizusashi Water Vessel for Tea Ceramony 6" Carving The wear on the lid

The wear on the lid matches where the silk cloth knot would have rubbed off the gold maki-e dust exposing the traditional red line lacquer used to catch the gold dust

A beautiful limited edition print created by the artist Caroline Young in the 1990's titled "Courage & Devotion"

A great piece of Japanese history and an interesting and very solid and functional piece of furniture

It was also exported to Japan in large quantities

This tsuba is made with forged steel and is in the shape of a marugata and has what appears to be pine limb shaped openwork as well as engraved tiny x shaped fower patterns

Vintage Japanese Small Brown Mizusashi Water Vessel for Tea Ceramony 6" Carving The wear on the lidThis Mizusashi is a tiny understated masterpiece of tea wear. This Mizusahi incorporates multiple layers of glaze fired at different temperatures to achieve a modeled surface of subsurface voids and cracks, some featuring clay pebbles poking out from the surface. Each part from lid to foot is masterfully crafted by hand to crate a sublime water vessel for tea. please take a closer look! Yamato FM