Gốm sứ mỹ nghệ · Fine ceramics · Edition of 24
Pair of celadon cups
Men ngọc — jade glaze; the same celadon as the tea bowl, on a cup you can hold in one hand.
Phạm Văn Đức
Two cups thrown thin, glazed in the family celadon and fired in reduction for a day; chosen from the load as a pair by Đức, who matches them by the depth of the green rather than by the crackle, which no two share.
For tea taken slowly. The crackle opens as the cup cools and takes on colour over years.
- Materials
- White river clay, celadon glaze from rice-straw ash
- Technique
- Thrown; reduction-fired for a day
- Dimensions
- Ø 7.5 × 7 cm each · Ø 3 × 2.8 in · 0.25 kg the pair
- Edition
- Edition of 24 · Signed and sealed
- Made
- Bát Tràng, Gia Lâm · 2026
The making
One firing, in four movements
Celadon is decided at dusk and read at dawn.
I
The clay
River clay aged in pits until it throws thin.
II
The glaze
Rice-straw ash and clay, dipped.
III
The fire
A day in reduction; the kiln sealed at dusk.
IV
The dawn
Opened in first light; the pairs chosen.
From the same village
