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Treasure 3 from John Baymore. A beautiful teacup/wan. More photos will be in John's TeawareArtisan topic momentarily.

It is thrown, and wood fired. Smooth white stoneware body. 8.5 cm dia and 7 cm h. Weight 160 grams. This piece I do not have the kiln firing record for, but I think it was the summer 2010 firing. Glaze both interior and out is American Shino but it is fired mainly in oxidation, so I am thinking from chamber 4 which is where I do that mostly (for oribe glazes mainly). It has substantial flyash over the shino glaze and some nice flashing on the exposed clay foot.

Winner TBD and announced later!!!

Treasure 4 by Andrzej of (almost) Electric Avenue. Another beautiful wan styled teacup. This has lots of character including the rim if you look closely.

Winner TBD and announced later!!!

OK, the remaining four treasures will be posted later today.

Chip wrote:OK, the remaining four treasures will be posted later today.

Thanks for posting that so I can stop jamming the refresh button for the next hour

HanshinTigers wrote:

Chip wrote:OK, the remaining four treasures will be posted later today.

Thanks for posting that so I can stop jamming the refresh button for the next hour

Yesssss, that was surprisingly forthcoming and considerate of me!!!

Family duty calls ... try not to burn down the forum til I return.

HanshinTigers wrote:

Chip wrote:OK, the remaining four treasures will be posted later today.

Thanks for posting that so I can stop jamming the refresh button for the next hour

HA! Ditto here!

HanshinTigers wrote:

Chip wrote:OK, the remaining four treasures will be posted later today.

Thanks for posting that so I can stop jamming the refresh button for the next hour

HA! Ditto here!.

odd...my first "double post' well i will just edit it and also say..OHHH AHHH Nice stuff!

Unfortunately, we in Europe will have to go to sleep... at least I will have a nice new pictures at the morning.

Wow, those are beautiful pieces! It was almost too much to view them for the first time all at once. Fortunately I was sitting down.

I think Chip has a well-crafted roll-out plan here for maximum tension...

Wow, very very nice treasures!

And the hunt was interesting too, especially at the very end. I got an unexpected visit and I barely managed to send the final answers in time!

Unfortunately, I had no idea about the treasure #1. Now I see the "hot legs" in Bill's avatar and the location is Homer, but what about Turquoise?

EDIT: Ah, I got it finally, the lovely turquoise cup from his thread?

Treasure 5 by Michael Coffee, aka ShyRabbit. Yes, another beautiful TeaCup, this time "glazed with Yellow Crystal Matte and reduction fired." Who is the lucky TreasureHunter?

Winner TBD and announced later!!!

Treasure 6 by cory lum. A beautiful "carved triangular yunomi." Who will be sipping from this very unique yunomi?

Winner TBD and announced later!!!

Treasure 7 by Togei, aka David Morrison Pike of NanbanCeramics. A beautifully shaped, woodfired Yunomi to a lucky TreasureHunter!

Winner TBD and announced later!!!

... and last but not least, an eager vendor who wanted to join in the fun of a TreasureHunt. Treasure 8 from IPT of Chinese-Tea-Culture. This little treasure Celadon Guinomi or GongFu cup "was made by Wu Yuanzhong and holds 30cc" and has oodles of charm and character.

Winner TBD and announced later!!!



Here is a link to another photo (to be fair I am only posting one photo per treasure in this topic). Had Mr. IPT created his TeaMerchandiser topic as he said he would, I would post them there. hint hint ... and I will once he does create this topic.

http://s285.photobucket.com/albums/ll60 ... ntipt3.jpg

OK, that's all folks!

How do you like my new cups?

Thank you TeawareArtisans and IPT for your generous participation in TeaChat's first ever TreasureHunt!!!

And of course thank you to all you members who sought out the hidden Treasures!!!