Hirota Heritage Glass Soy Sauce Dispenser — Small Rectangle

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Hirota Glass has been making glass in Tokyo since 1899. The workshop’s approach to its historical archive is less preservation than translation, keeping older forms in circulation on modern tables. This dispenser is one of the shapes drawn from that archive. A rectangular form, one of three shapes in Hirota's small dispenser line. Its flat sides give it a more geometric feel than the round or the octagon, and let it sit closer to its neighbors on a crowded table. At 50 ml, this size lends itself to a few uses on the table: one at each place setting, two or three lined up with different condiments, or a smaller pour of something used sparingly. The pour is quiet. The build is quiet too. The ground-glass stopper's lip catches stray drops and returns them to the body, so nothing lands on the tablecloth. The bottle is two pieces of glass held closed by the fit of the ground-glass itself. No plastic, no rubber, no screws to strip. Nothing hidden, nothing to gunk up. Ground-glass stopper. The lip catches stray drops and returns them to the body, so it doesn't leave sticky rings on the table Two glass parts only. No plastic, no rubber, no screws. Easy to take apart, easy to clean 50 ml rectangular form, one of three shapes in Hirota's small dispenser line Fits any small-pour condiment: soy sauce, olive oil, balsamic, lemon juice, vinegar Kodai-iro (the color of Japan's classical era), a very subtle amber warmth traditional to Hirota Simple lines from a hundred-year archive. Show more