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Lavender Cup
$80.00
Wheel-thrown porcelain cup with inlaid (mishima) and hand-painted drawings of a lavender blossoms with a lavender glaze interior
Mishima a traditional surface design technique achieved by incising or carving fine lines into leather-hard clay then inlaying a slip (liquid clay) of a contrasting color into the lines. The excess slip is then removed to reveal a drawing inlaid into the clay.