{"product_id":"teardrop-ceramic-vase-one-of-a-kind","title":"Teardrop Ceramic Vase — One of a Kind","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHandmade by Tetsuya Otani, JP, c. 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA one-of-a-kind porcelain vase in soft white, made in the wan-tsugi (碗継ぎ) technique — the vessel thrown in two hemispheres and joined at the equator, each piece carrying its own subtle asymmetry from the seam. This one swells low and pulls in toward the neck, dimpled slightly across the waist — the form reads as breath caught mid-exhale. Where Otani's line work is refined to neutral form, the one-of-a-kind pieces arrive already inflected: the gesture in the clay before the vase ever holds a stem.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTetsuya Otani's porcelain is made for the present. Each vessel arrives with a soft white surface and a form refined to its bare skeleton. Time enters through use — the meal served, the coffee poured, the flowers arranged, the daily handling — rather than the maker's direction. Trained as an industrial designer before turning to clay, Otani approaches ceramics through the act of subtraction. He calls it denationalization: refining away the signifiers and declarations that mark a vessel's origin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold Individually.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tetsuya Otani","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54055870595267,"sku":"TO11","price":2175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0646\/2567\/2387\/files\/Screenshot_2026-07-29_at_4.29.35_PM.png?v=1785356989","url":"https:\/\/jadegrain.com\/products\/teardrop-ceramic-vase-one-of-a-kind","provider":"Jade Grain","version":"1.0","type":"link"}