The body of this porcelain vessel is thrown on a potter’s wheel. The interior is filled with hand-built porcelain daisy flowers. The exterior is decorated with Michikusa sprigs, each carved in finer detail after removal from the mould. After that, the piece is very slowly dried for around six months.
It was at high school in Japan, in the Gifu Prefecture – an area with strong ceramic connections – that Hitomi Hosono first encountered porcelain and ...
