Ido-Style White Glaze Bowl — Lobed Rim, Dark Iron Footring, Crackle Glaze

A small, hand-formed bowl with a softly lobed, uneven rim that gives it an organic, almost blossom-like outline rather than a true circle — consistent with the deliberately imperfect, wheel-thrown-then-hand-shaped tradition seen in Korean-influenced Japanese tea wares (Ido-de). The glaze is a warm, milky white with soft grey-beige clouding pooling unevenly across the interior, and a fine network of crackle runs throughout the surface — the natural result of glaze and clay body contracting at different rates during cooling.

The footring is notably wide and left in dark, unglazed iron-rich clay, with a thick ring of drippy dark-brown glaze pooling just above it where the white glaze was wiped or trailed off before firing — a strong contrast against the pale body and a hallmark "kairagi" (皮切れ)-adjacent glaze-pull effect often prized in Ido and Mishima-adjacent bowls. A small stamped or incised mark is faintly visible near the edge of the footring. Fine spiral throwing lines are visible on the exterior wall beneath the glaze.

Details:

• Origin: Korean-influenced Japanese stoneware, in the Ido/Mishima tea-bowl tradition (specific kiln/potter unconfirmed)

• Form: Small rounded bowl with soft, lobed hand-shaped rim, wide trimmed footring

• Glaze: Milky white glaze with fine allover crackle and soft grey-beige clouding; thick dark-brown glaze pooling above the unglazed footring

• Decoration: None applied — surface interest comes from natural crackle and glaze-pull contrast

• Base: Wide, unglazed iron-rich footring with a small stamped/incised mark; interior of foot also unglazed

• Condition: Good vintage/secondhand condition — please check photos for chips, hairline cracks near the rim, or glaze wear

• Quantity: Single piece

• Dimensions: approx. (Diameter) 14cm x (Height) 4cm