The chawans grow more textured. A white tea bowl carries a broad black patch across one flank — not smooth but pitted and blistered, a rough lava crust — set beside a powder-blue drip field studded with small tan beads where the glaze pulled into droplets. Rust warms the low wall, and throwing rings circle the base, which carries “2180” handwritten. It closes the run’s first stretch: 2181 is a reserve number with no page, so the chain breaks here until 2182.
Blistered, not glossy? Blistered — the black patch here is pocked and crusty rather than the smooth crawled glaze of the cups before it, paired with beaded blue drips. Piece 2180 of 10,000, listed at $21.80.
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