Egg Shaped Polka Dot Sake Server and Sake Cup

Metalwork

Craft Company: Gyokusendo

ORIGIN: Tsubame, Niigata Prefecture
SIZE: Sake Server: W80×H95mm (340ml) / Sake Cup: Φ56×H37mm (60ml)
MATERIAL: Copper, Tin

Entranced by the sound of hammering

This sake cup has a rounded shape with a fine hammered pattern and lightly dancing polka dots. The thinly finished copper texture is cool and pleasant to the lips. This is a piece created by a skilled artisan using an array of different tools to finish a single sheet of copper plate, raising and planishing it, the sound of the hammer ringing out tens of thousands of times. It will continue to count time with its users for a long time to come.

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Narashi (Planishing)
- Technique
One of the processes of tankin (forging), in which a hammer or wooden mallet is used to adjust a piece’s overall shape and make its thickness uniform. There are two types of planishing: ara-narashi, a rough planishing to even out the larger rough hammer marks left from the forming process, and shiage-narashi, a finishing planishing to set its final appearance.
Yaki-namashi (Annealing)
- Technique
The process of heating hammered and tempered metal in a fire to improve the malleability of the copper structure and make it easier to work. The repetitive hammering and annealing by which a piece will take its final shape.
Tsuiki
- Technique
A metal working technique in which gold, silver, copper, or their alloys are stretched into a sheet and formed into a three-dimensional form, utilizing the ductility and malleability of the metal.
Tankin (Forging)
- Technique
A metalworking technique in which a hammer or wooden mallet is used to shape a sheet or ingot of metal, such as gold, silver, iron, or copper, by hammering or bending.
Shibori
- Technique
A metal forging technique in which a metal plate is placed on a curved iron tool called an ategane, and then shaped with a hammer or wooden mallet into a sculptural form.

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