Blue Shell Tea Caddy

Name: Blue Shell Tea Caddy
Brand: Yasuhiro Asai

This tea caddy is an urushi art piece created using the decorative raden technique with deep blue and green shell pieces. Layers of urushi lacquer were applied, and over ten thousand tiny shells were attached, maximising the natural colour variations of the shell.

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Shell, Urushi, Gold powder, Cypress wood, Tea caddy