Stoneware teabowl.
This teabowl was in the kiln for my first stoneware firing. A new stoneware clay body, made with some local clays, with additions of silica, feldspar and grog. Three different shino glazes, including one made from crushed, local feldspar rocks, combine to give unique textures and tones to this iconic form.
Reduction fired to 1300°C
130mmW x 80mmH
A form I, and many other ceramists, are drawn to. Most often associated with the Japanese tea ceremony, chanoyu, or The Way of Tea, the teabowl is now one of the most famous of ceramic forms, made by potters all over the world. In this, seemingly simple form, lies a challenge for the maker, to capture a certain essence, to conjure a feeling from the viewer, of being in tune with nature, that it was not created, but born of some natural process.
Stoneware teabowl.
This teabowl was in the kiln for my first stoneware firing. A new stoneware clay body, made with some local clays, with additions of silica, feldspar and grog. Three different shino glazes, including one made from crushed, local feldspar rocks, combine to give unique textures and tones to this iconic form.
Reduction fired to 1300°C
130mmW x 80mmH
A form I, and many other ceramists, are drawn to. Most often associated with the Japanese tea ceremony, chanoyu, or The Way of Tea, the teabowl is now one of the most famous of ceramic forms, made by potters all over the world. In this, seemingly simple form, lies a challenge for the maker, to capture a certain essence, to conjure a feeling from the viewer, of being in tune with nature, that it was not created, but born of some natural process.
