The chawan run turns deliberate. Held in a hand, this cream tea bowl carries clear brushwork: navy-black vertical bars crossed by horizontal strokes, drawn firmly enough to read as a gate or a grid against a pale-blue wash, with rust warming the clay below. Where the earlier chawans washed and splashed, this one is composed of discrete, confident strokes. The base carries “2184” handwritten over throwing rings.
Is that a symbol? It falls into a gate-like lattice of bars, but it’s recorded as brushwork — deliberate navy strokes, never read as a letter or character. Piece 2184 of 10,000, listed at $21.84.
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