SHORYU Oil Drop Pattern Gold Lid knob Back Handle Small Teapot 昭龍油滴 SR20

SHORYU Oil Drop Red & Gold Lid  Back Handle Teapot 昭龍油滴

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Elegant & noble black Japanese handmade teapot with gold paint lid knob.

Body is carbon black with oil drop pattern with delicate shine. The black comes from reduction firing with rice-hulls in kiln. (Smoked)

Melt pure gold was applied on lid knob, that makes teapot look gorgeous. And the gold lid makes the black more beautiful.

After 1st firing (red teapot),  apply glaze on surface fire again , then go reduction firing (smoked. becomes black teapot) , apply pure gold on lid-knob the fire again.

It is originally red clay.

It was not easy to have beautiful oil drop pattern at first, Shoryu said. He had been tried some years to have ideal pattern constantly. Because change of weather and season (temperature and humidity in the air) affect to the pattern.

The surface is glazed and its texture is smooth and natural, inside is unglazed, so that tea and water touches the clay – that makes tea taste round.

This teapot is rather light, body is relatively thin.

The artist Shoryu developed own light clay after 3 years of research.

Good to brew any kind of tea. There are many good reputation especially green tea, white tea brewing.

Artist Bio: Born in 1945. 62 years of teapot production work , as of 2022.

In 2018, received The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Silver Rays from the government for his long year contribution to the Japan’s traditional art craft.

 Please also see Syoryu Teapot Story https://shihateacomfort.com/shoryuplum

Capacity： 150ml

Artist: SHORYU
Box: Paper Box

Size comparison of standard one and small one

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