The Pontifex Maximus is our first fountain pen model. In Latin, Pontifex means "bridge-builder". Made in Belgium from Japanese ebonite and featuring a "Japanese eyedropper" filling system, this oversized fountain pen is a well balanced writing instrument and offers a generous canvas for urushi and maki-e artwork.
For our first series of six unique urushi artist pens, carte blanche was given to six of the most highly regarded lacquer artists in Japan. Each of these fountain pens is a unique (1/1) work of art and represents the highest level of contemporary urushi art.
Kazuko Yamaguchi (1948) is a painter at heart, who treats her maki-e artworks like a canvas. Her works typically display dynamically portrayed flowers and petals, swept by gusts of wind in a recognizable style of iro-togidashi-maki-e that combines white, red, and pink urushi. Lighting up the scenery are small shards of abalone raden and the outlines of the flowers, which are emphasized by lines of golden hira-maki-e.
See specification below.
SPECIFICATION
METHOD. Raden, iro-togidashi-maki-e, hira-maki-e.
MATERIAL. Abalone shell, gold powder & 100% urushi on ebonite.
FILLING SYSTEM. Japanese Eyedropper (3,5 ml ink capacity).
NIB. #8 18k Gold Bock nib.
DIMENSIONS. Closed length : 152 mm.
Barrel length (incl. nib) : 144 mm.
Barrel diameter : 16 mm.
Cap diameter : 19 mm.
YEAR. 2025
EDITION. 1/1
PRICE. On request.