The blue thread returns: over a bare sandy body, this handbuilt chawan wears a pale grey-blue glaze band at the rim, pooling milky where the lip dips. The base carries “1989” in broad dark strokes — deep enough to read incised, soft enough to read painted, so the ledger keeps the number in prose and lets the medium stay a draw.
Incised or painted? Genuinely unclear at photo distance — and the catalog tags only what it can prove. Piece 1989 of 10,000, listed at $19.89.
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