TeaChat

Beautiful display.

lekke wrote:

iannon wrote:

lekke wrote:

Yay! another Tawarade! awesome. I love the way it feels in my hand personally

Is yours by any chance the right one on these photos?
http://tinyurl.com/3gcnx3t
Beacuse I got the left one!

doesnt look like it..I did get mine near the begining of the year and he has sold out twice i think..he may be on his third pair of blues by now

This is a wood fired chawan I picked up at the Mungyeong Tea Bowl Festival in Korea this past month. It is made by Elena Renker, a New Zealand potter who works in shino. Wonderful lightness and feel in the hands.

I know this is not pot or cup, but it is good detail on great porcelain teaboat by Petr Novák. So teaboat and Wu Liang ripe tuo cha 2005...

Superb photo !

David R. wrote:Superb photo !

+1 great shot indeed!

Tead Off wrote:This is a wood fired chawan I picked up at the Mungyeong Tea Bowl Festival in Korea this past month. It is made by Elena Renker, a New Zealand potter who works in shino. Wonderful lightness and feel in the hands.

Renker chawan 3.jpg

I have never heard about her till P.Novak's post on his blog - shame.
beauty!

fun new nodate or travel/location chawan, double walled to protect ones fingers

getting ready for summer, location tea. just bring your hot water jug, thermos along w/ green tea and whisk. usually the whisks are smaller in size

handthrown, carved, celadon on iron clay body.
cone 10 reduction.

bonjiri wrote:a fun bizen piece from a up and coming artist from okayama

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Woh! That's very cool!

David R. and Andrzej: Thanks! I like its caramelish colour.

So I went to the Folklife Festival in Seattle, hoping to have some fun, hear some music, maybe pick up some raw honey ... I never expected to be ambushed by teaware! Yet somehow I came home with a brand-new chawan anyway ...



(Yes, that is a Transformer in the background. My own personal version of a teapet, I guess... )

The piece was by Reid Ozaki, a local ceramic artist who is currently exhibiting work at the Seattle Center gallery. There were multiple chawan, yunomi and other pieces, all with these utterly amazing glazes in soft silver/gray/brown, crazed and pitted and threaded through with metallic silver in spots.



It was amazingly hard to decide--it's a good thing my wallet forced me to pick only one. I ended up with this one--the metallic threading in the glaze can look either silver or coppery, depending on the light.

I'm not ceramics expert, but your chawan looks very nice to me. Enjoy.

Wow, that's a really cool chawan! I love the color variation of that metallic glaze... in the other thread where you have a matcha shot, it looks very coppery and the red accent and gray coloring complement the green really well....!

Drax wrote:Wow, that's a really cool chawan! I love the color variation of that metallic glaze... in the other thread where you have a matcha shot, it looks very coppery and the red accent and gray coloring complement the green really well....!

Thanks Tortoise, Drax! I really am enjoying it--if anything, it's hard to drink tea out of it when all I want to do is turn it around in my hands and admire all the color variations in the glaze ...

hopeofdawn wrote:So I went to the Folklife Festival in Seattle, hoping to have some fun, hear some music, maybe pick up some raw honey ... I never expected to be ambushed by teaware! Yet somehow I came home with a brand-new chawan anyway ...



(Yes, that is a Transformer in the background. My own personal version of a teapet, I guess... )

The piece was by Reid Ozaki, a local ceramic artist who is currently exhibiting work at the Seattle Center gallery. There were multiple chawan, yunomi and other pieces, all with these utterly amazing glazes in soft silver/gray/brown, crazed and pitted and threaded through with metallic silver in spots.



It was amazingly hard to decide--it's a good thing my wallet forced me to pick only one. I ended up with this one--the metallic threading in the glaze can look either silver or coppery, depending on the light.

fantastic chawan from reid !

mr ozaki is from the hawaiian islands. great guy ! a transplant in the pacific northwest ! he's very versatile, making amazing hanaire or flower arrangement vessels and more !

nice guy too !
his glazes are amazing too !

cheers
c

Imagining the magic of draining the matcha and slowly revealing the metallic sparkles......

If only I *liked* matcha.