Bune Earrings - silver

Mini vessel-shaped sterling silver earrings, with choice of 4mm blue spot jasper or 4mm amazonite cabochon. Each earring measures 9mm side, 11mm tall and 3mm thick, with sterling silver posts and backs. A modern accent for the everyday. 

Made to order — please allow up to 2 weeks of lead time before shipping. 

Price listed in USD — Canadians who wish to purchase in CAD, please contact info@yuun.studio.

Chinese ceramics were exported not only by land via the Silk Road, but also by vessel on sea, to places as remote as the Americas but also as proximal as Japan, where Chinese techniques were quickly adopted in the local craft. Japan is where we encounter the legend of Utsuro-bune — the “hollow boat”: 

In 1803, fishermen on the eastern coast find a strange ship, washed ashore. A foreign woman is on board, with fire hair and a pale complexion, wearing fine clothes of unfamiliar make. She does not speak Japanese, and clutches a mysterious box. In fear (of the unknown, of the other), the fishermen return the woman and her boat to sea, to drift away.

She is inscrutable to them, and therefore (a vessel) empty.

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The VESSEL collection is a meditation on what it means to hold, figuratively and literally. Aesthetically inspired by the ceramic tradition of China, each piece in the collection is an intimate reminder of presence and essence in our daily.