Mano cup with saucer mat brown
Description
The "Mano" cup and saucer set, which means a hand in Italian, is meant to convey the "hand to hand" warmth of the people involved in this handicraft. The roundish cup fits comfortably in your hand and gives a sense of the handiwork that comes from the unique material, clay and glaze. The cup' s rounded high base is hand-carved with care and love. The edges of the saucer are made water-repellent and decolored, again by hand, revealing the base clay with baked nuances. Available in four colors: "matte" green, brown, and "glossy" gray and white. Not only coffee, but also latte art with steamed milk and desserts are perfect in this cup because of its large mouth.
Features
Strong Color Shade Variations
Each piece has strong individual color shade variations. Affected by glazes and natural firing conditions such as changes in temperature, humidity and other climate elements and also how to receive the fire in the kiln chamber, each piece has own expression. It is really difficult to make the completed ware exactly same in color by firing and glazing even when the same materials are used. 100 pieces show 100 kinds of expressions, as it were.
Strong Color Irregularities
There are strong color irregularities of applying a glaze or slip, which are different from part to part in a piece of ware. For example, some parts are glazed thinly or thickly depending on the shape of the ware. That leads to part-to-part differences in appearance of the clay in a piece of ware.
Glaze or Slip Drips
The glaze or slip may look like dripping. There is unevenness of a glaze or slip when they are applied to ware by hand. There also appear glaze drips or slip drips, which are caused by the glaze or slip flows during firing.
Pinholes
Pinholes may be seen clearly on the surface. Pottery (earthenware) is mainly made from earth, and green ware contains a lot of air while biscuit firing. While glazed firing, this air inside the biscuit ware becomes air bubbles, which remain and look like small holes on the surface of the glazed part. Those small holes are called pinholes.
Iron in Powder
Iron in powder may be seen clearly on the surface. Pottery (earthenware) is made from earth, which contains iron. After firing green ware, iron appears on the surface in the form of black dots. Red or black earthen clay contains much more iron, and as a result, not a little iron in powder may appear on the surface of tableware items made from this type of clay.
made in JAPAN
