Show Off Your Pots and Cups XIII

[Victoria]

My 2nd new teapot from tokoname.jp is a taller version shaped like this, but I have no fukamushi to test this out.....but can report that it makes a lovely regular sencha. Sencha zuiko from Denstea.com to be exact.



From the small image in the catalog I thought it would be plainer, didn't see the decorative stuff until I unpakcked it. Would have gone iwth a plain red clay instead. Still, brews a mean cup of sencha, stands n the handle, pours nice. Sweet little pot.

Oh sweet! I like the decoration - it's subtle enough. Nice!

[Geekgirl]

Additives being carbon.

I believe there is a distinction made between adding carbon during firing (through the addition of elements like straw, ash, husks, seaweed, etc,) and "additives" as in colors, dyes or other elements added directly to the clay mixture before throwing or molding. One is a firing process, and one is truly a clay additive. It's to the former process as an alternative to reduction firing that I am referring.

[Tead Off]

Additives being carbon.

I believe there is a distinction made between adding carbon during firing (through the addition of elements like straw, ash, husks, seaweed, etc,) and "additives" as in colors, dyes or other elements added directly to the clay mixture before throwing or molding. One is a firing process, and one is truly a clay additive. It's to the former process as an alternative to reduction firing that I am referring.

I'm unsure how they add carbon to acheive the dark look but I would deduce that it is added to the clay surface by hand because of the very even look that these pots often have. Hidasuki (straw) never acheives a uniform color so I think my saying carbon as an additive may be correct. I own a kyusu from Horaido which says the coloring is acheived through the introduction of carbon into the clay. The kyusu is very evenly colored, no mottling or shudei peeking through except on the very edge of the mouth opening.

[Geekgirl]

Wouldn't reduction accomplish this very even look? And then the final sanding to the mouth would expose the tiny bit of shudei underneath the surface?

[Tead Off]

Wouldn't reduction accomplish this very even look? And then the final sanding to the mouth would expose the tiny bit of shudei underneath the surface?

It's the evenness that I question. I have some banko pots that don't show any red where the surface is scraped away. Maybe some of our potter friends can answer this question about evenness.

Also, the carbon introduced pots are not the same color as the reduced shudei. In the banko pots, they are not black like the carbon ones.

[Geekgirl]

Yes, that does clarify things. I guess I assumed that any tokoname pot that is REALLY black, is colored clay. When I question reduction or carbon "coating," I'm thinking of two of my tokoname pots, which are "black-ish," really more of a deep brown, or purple-brown, as opposed to one of my less expensive kyusu that has very vivid colors, and is probably colored clay to begin with.

(I love this stuff! )

[Victoria]

TeawearArtisan Petr Novak's shino cup is going to be a nice match to my Korean pot due to Petr's Korean influences:

[chittychat]

Showing off my antique ivory teapot. Must have come from a mighty tusk. Holds 1 Liter. Still has a strong smell of black tea when filled and drained of water. I am not using it.
Carvings show children at play. Handle and spout bamboo motive. Cover with curled-up dragon.

[Victoria]

Wow beautiful and sad.

[Corona]

Hey there, just popping in with a view of my new Pink Shino cup from the recent TC special offer. I wish I could capture it better, did what I could with my Canon PowerShot SD750, Digital ELPH. I've never done much anything with cameras, and some of the photos i've seen on here amaze me! So, any comments on the photography are wonderful, i'd like to atleast get a grasp of how to get nice pictures. These are on the manual settings, by the way.

Thanks!

[Victoria]

Wow, that is beautiful!!! Congrats!

[Geekgirl]

Beautiful! For some reason, I don't remember seeing that one, did the original photos show the sakura flowers?

[brian]

Very nice! I would have loved to grab one (or more) of the sakura ones, but I missed the boat ...

[Smells_Familiar]

Very nice Corona... I likey!

Here's another I really like. By Mr. Fornell.

[Chip]

Very nice! I would have loved to grab one (or more) of the sakura ones, but I missed the boat ...

There are still pieces available.

That's a beauty Corona.

Edit: Quite a bit of drama in that Chawan SF!