Mishima Vase with retailer Blue Waistband

Snow white midfire porcelain with blue underglaze design and clear satin glaze.

Mishima Design. This surface design technique is a way of carving lines incised in leather-hard retailer clay then overlaying a slip of contrasting color and carefully scraping the slip away to leave the color only in the lines.
This method gives Pam a chance to draw on her pots with a sensitivity very different from brush work. Brushes are quick and loose. Mishima is a draftsman's labor of love.