Chawan Tea Bowl 380 ml — No handle, held in two hands

A hand holding the Chawan Tea Bowl 380 ml, showing the scale of the cup against a hand

In the hand

No handle. You hold this one around the body, so the 6 mm wall is what your fingers feel.

360 g empty

380 mlNo handle

Chawan Tea Bowl 380 ml

No handle, held in two hands

DKK 245incl. 25% moms

A wide bowl in the Japanese manner, held in the palms rather than by a handle. Because your hands are on the ceramic, the wall thickness matters more here than anywhere else in the range: 6 mm is warm to hold rather than hot, but a freshly filled bowl still needs a moment.

Delivery from DKK 45 in Denmark, free over DKK 600. 14-day right of withdrawal and two-year right to complain on everything here.

Measured

Taken from the current production batch. Hand-finished, so individual pieces vary by up to ±5%.

Capacity: 380ml
Rim Ø: 118mm
Handle opening: None
Wall: 6mm
Weight: 360g
Height: 76mm
At 10 min: 68°C
Pieces in box: 1
Stacks: No

Cooling: 95 °C down to 68 °C in ten minutes

27 degrees over ten minutes. Ceramic has no vacuum layer. A thicker wall cools more slowly than a thin one, and that is the whole of the effect — none of these cups keep a drink hot the way a vacuum flask does.

Measured with 95 °C water in a 20 °C room, uncovered and undisturbed, temperature read at the centre of the liquid after 10 minutes.

The same figures, in degrees Celsius
Minute	Chawan Tea Bowl 380 ml
0	95
2	89
4	83
6	77
8	72
10	68

The reading at ten minutes is measured. The points between are Newton’s law of cooling fitted through it — see how we measure cooling.

Food safety

Food contact: Yes. This is a food contact article under Regulation (EU) No 1935/2004 and carries the glass-and-fork mark on its packaging.
Glaze: Lead-free ash glaze, food contact
Lead and cadmium: Fillable to more than 25 mm, so the Council Directive 84/500/EEC limits that apply are lead 4.0 mg/L and cadmium 0.3 mg/L.
Declaration of Compliance: DOC-DK-2026-019; Held on file. Ask us for a copy and we will send it.

How to use it

Microwave: Suitable.
Dishwasher: Hand wash. A dishwasher will dull this finish over time.
Temperature: Avoid sudden temperature changes. Do not pour boiling water into a cold cup straight from the fridge, and do not move a hot cup into cold water — ceramic can crack from thermal shock.
Variation: Each cup is finished by hand, so dimensions vary by up to ±5% and no two glazes are identical. Variation in colour, glaze pooling and small surface pinholes are characteristics of the process, not faults.

How and where it is made

Forming: Thrown by hand on a wheel, one at a time
Designed in: Denmark
Made in: Portugal
Packing: Cups travel in single-cup cushioned boxes. If something arrives broken, photograph the box and the pieces and tell us within 14 days of delivery — we replace or refund, and we pay the return postage.

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