Show Off Your Pots and Cups XV

Website · by **debunix** » Oct 23rd, '10, 23:20

Show Off Your Pots and Cups XV

by debunix » Oct 23rd, '10, 23:20

Moderator Edit: Welcome to Chapter 15 of Show Off Your Pots and Cups. That is 375 pages to date.

You can see where we left off last chapter here: http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=13403&start=360#p174999

Enjoy ...
Chip
Immoderate TeaDrinker who happens to Moderate

First, some nice crackling on my 'granite' yunomi from ginkgo: the inside is stained, the outside remains snow white.

Website · by **debunix** » Oct 23rd, '10, 23:54

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by debunix » Oct 23rd, '10, 23:54

Today, inspired by the 'Spirit' cups being celebrated, I took out my Seigan hagi and started shooting. It was hard to stop, as they are so amazing, closer and closer with the camera, playing with flash, window light, and filtered sunlight.

Eventually I ended up with two sets of images on my flickr, one for the Seigan blue and one for the Sansai terbineri.

The Seigan blue is very dramatic

and the glaze has translucency in areas almost as ethereal as the 'Spirit' cups

and I'm just a sucker for swirly gorgeous variegated colors

and the clay foot just feels powerful with the embedded larger gravels

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The Sansai is more subtle

with different moods on different sides

A vast white interior, with abundant crackles

Clay peeking through at the rim

And again, that very powerful-looking clay at the foot

by **gargoylekitty** » Oct 24th, '10, 00:37

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by gargoylekitty » Oct 24th, '10, 00:37

Those are beautiful, debunix. That blue is especially gorgeous.

by **Chip** » Oct 24th, '10, 01:01

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by Chip » Oct 24th, '10, 01:01

Great photos of Hagi SO 9 and 11, Debunix! Beauties!

by **Victoria** » Oct 24th, '10, 01:03

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by Victoria » Oct 24th, '10, 01:03

Beautiful, great pics!

by **Marco** » Oct 24th, '10, 04:41

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by Marco » Oct 24th, '10, 04:41

rabbit wrote:Do you mean crackleware 'cup'? If so, I love it so much! It's my favorite cup, delicate, perfectly shaped, just the right size, beautiful color. I enjoy my tea even more when it's in this cup =)

Yes sure I meant cup :oops:

How big is your "right size"?
I think I need one too.

@David: Those two cups are amazing - I love the coulour.

@debunix: I really like this ginkgo cup - I thing I am a fan of crackles

by **David R.** » Oct 24th, '10, 04:58

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by David R. » Oct 24th, '10, 04:58

Thank you a lot for these wonderful photos debunix !! Ginkgo's work is amazing. I am in contact with her right now for a chawan. Fantastic close shots of Seigan's glaze. His work surely deserves a close look.

Did you use a box to take your pictures as Seeker did with his chawan ?

by **rabbit** » Oct 24th, '10, 14:09

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by rabbit » Oct 24th, '10, 14:09

Does anyone think they could tell me what type of pots I have based on the pictures on page 24?

by **David R.** » Oct 25th, '10, 02:25

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by David R. » Oct 25th, '10, 02:25

rabbit wrote:Does anyone think they could tell me what type of pots I have based on the pictures on page 24?

The red one at the right bottom corner looks like a Chao Zhou teapot. So it should be good for dan cong, taiwanese light roasted wulong and young sheng puerh. Here is the extent of what I can tell.

by **rabbit** » Oct 25th, '10, 14:25

Re: Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIV

by rabbit » Oct 25th, '10, 14:25

David R. wrote:
rabbit wrote:Does anyone think they could tell me what type of pots I have based on the pictures on page 24?

The red one at the right bottom corner looks like a Chao Zhou teapot. So it should be good for dan cong, taiwanese light roasted wulong and young sheng puerh. Here is the extent of what I can tell.

Yeah it looks like it was spun on a wheel and I noticed a comment of yours in another thread about someone elses' that made me think it might be a chao zhou.

by **Stentor** » Oct 27th, '10, 16:10

Re: NEW CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XV

by Stentor » Oct 27th, '10, 16:10

Stunning photographs of the Seigan pieces, debunix. Thanks a lot for showing them to us!

by **laura99** » Oct 27th, '10, 19:54

Re: NEW CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XV

by laura99 » Oct 27th, '10, 19:54

Awesome Seigan photos debunix! I can see those blue close-up's making a pretty neat computer background

by **Chip** » Oct 27th, '10, 19:58

Re: NEW CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XV

by Chip » Oct 27th, '10, 19:58

Yeah, the photos, I think you just blew my freakin' mind, or is this Van Gogh :?:

Website · by **debunix** » Oct 28th, '10, 11:51

Re: NEW CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XV

by debunix » Oct 28th, '10, 11:51

While I think I might like the blue one better on its own for sheer-Van Gogh-Starry Night-ness, I have to admit that the white Sansai might be a lovelier match with green tea, because the white interior shows it off so well. See today's teaDay post for proof.

by **TIM** » Oct 30th, '10, 16:23

Re: NEW CHAPTER! Show Off Your Pots and Cups XV

by TIM » Oct 30th, '10, 16:23

A Shigaraki vase in the new tea room.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65257125@N00/5129621322/