Very nice, both of you! I'm glad we all get a chance to appreciate them too.
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Yep. A bit back I was trying to decide which one to get and everyone suggested getting the one I loved if I could afford it (that one was more expensive that the others I was thinking about). Anyway, while I was deciding, DH got a big bonus, so woo hoo - I got to get the expensive one that makes me drool!joelbct wrote:Nice, auggy, is it tokoname-yaki?auggy wrote:Ooh, very pretty!
I got my new toy last week, but with everything going on... yeah. But here it is:
And that picture made me realize that my kitchen counter is actually a really good place to take pictures!
I love it - DH gets a bonus and I get a present!
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Well done, auggy - you made a good choiceauggy wrote:A bit back I was trying to decide which one to get and everyone suggested getting the one I loved if I could afford it (that one was more expensive that the others I was thinking about). Anyway, while I was deciding, DH got a big bonus, so woo hoo - I got to get the expensive one that makes me drool!
I love it - DH gets a bonus and I get a present!
By the way, I am curious. I can see plum flowers and also pine boughs. Does bamboo also appear on your kyusu as a motif anywhere?
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OK, not that I really needed one... but yesterday I bought another yixing teapot. This one is quite tiny.
It was being sold at a local church bazaar for $1, and I thought it was cute, so I thought, what the hell.
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P.S. I must find a background that's a bit more... serene... than those striped placemats of mine
It was being sold at a local church bazaar for $1, and I thought it was cute, so I thought, what the hell.
Comments?
P.S. I must find a background that's a bit more... serene... than those striped placemats of mine
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Joel drew to my attention that I haven't actually posted any of my chawan-s yet... so here goes.
The following is one of my favourites. It is not a new acquisition. I bought it a couple of years ago on eBay. It was one of those "my late uncle lived in Japan for a few years and bought some pottery..." sorts of stories. The seller listed it in such a way that it didn't make it onto the radar of most potential bidders - luckily for me!
It was only after I bought the chawan that I found out it was by KIMURA Morikazu. He's a tenmoku specialist, born in 1922, and is one of three renowned brothers who are all ceramicists (the others are named Moriyazu and Morinobu). I identified the potter only after spotting a listing on Trocadero for a vase that used a very similar tenmoku glaze. Upon further inspection, both pieces turned out to have the same signature. That always makes identification much easier!
Tenmoku can refer to two things: a particular shape of chawan, and/or the iron glazes characteristically used on that type of chawan, both of which originated in China (the name comes from tiān mù, the mountain temple in China where the bowls and their glaze were first developed). You can read all about it on e-yakimono.net here.
My tenmoku chawan uses the yuteki (oilspot) glaze, but it has a standard chawan shape rather than the V-shape of the "true" tenmoku bowl, with its characteristic bell shape and tiny base. This makes it much more versatile, in fact.
Unfortunately, this glaze is also bleedin' hard to photograph! Here are my attempts:
The following is one of my favourites. It is not a new acquisition. I bought it a couple of years ago on eBay. It was one of those "my late uncle lived in Japan for a few years and bought some pottery..." sorts of stories. The seller listed it in such a way that it didn't make it onto the radar of most potential bidders - luckily for me!
It was only after I bought the chawan that I found out it was by KIMURA Morikazu. He's a tenmoku specialist, born in 1922, and is one of three renowned brothers who are all ceramicists (the others are named Moriyazu and Morinobu). I identified the potter only after spotting a listing on Trocadero for a vase that used a very similar tenmoku glaze. Upon further inspection, both pieces turned out to have the same signature. That always makes identification much easier!
Tenmoku can refer to two things: a particular shape of chawan, and/or the iron glazes characteristically used on that type of chawan, both of which originated in China (the name comes from tiān mù, the mountain temple in China where the bowls and their glaze were first developed). You can read all about it on e-yakimono.net here.
My tenmoku chawan uses the yuteki (oilspot) glaze, but it has a standard chawan shape rather than the V-shape of the "true" tenmoku bowl, with its characteristic bell shape and tiny base. This makes it much more versatile, in fact.
Unfortunately, this glaze is also bleedin' hard to photograph! Here are my attempts:
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But of course! Gotta have the full set.chamekke wrote:By the way, I am curious. I can see plum flowers and also pine boughs. Does bamboo also appear on your kyusu as a motif anywhere?
And because I think it is pretty:
I like your new yixing. $1? Why don't I ever find those types of deals?!
And your chawan is stunning!
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Thanks for the extra pics. You really do have a beauty of a teapot there!auggy wrote:But of course! Gotta have the full set.chamekke wrote:By the way, I am curious. I can see plum flowers and also pine boughs. Does bamboo also appear on your kyusu as a motif anywhere?
And because I think it is pretty:
I like your new yixing. $1? Why don't I ever find those types of deals?!
As for my $1 yixing, Mary suggested last night that I may want to test it for lead before drinking from it, since I don't know its provenance
So I may just do that. Right now, it's simply being "decorative" on a living room table.It also doesn't have an attractive little ceramic filter like your kyusu. I agree with you - those filters are pretty.
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Gosh, those are nice.devites wrote:My new Yixing pots. http://flickr.com/photos/23944331@N04/2462447683/
Quick question, though. The Yixing pot on the right - what does the knob on the lid represent? I can't quite make it out, even though I looked at the large size on Flickr. (I think it looks a little like a seal poking its head out of the ocean, but surely that can't be right. Yixing pot as Rorschach test!!)
Also, did you get the cups at the same time? It must be a pleasure to use those...
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It is a fish. All of that Yixing ware cost $25 combined with shipping. I love this ebay store.
http://stores.ebay.com/Chinese-Teapot-G ... ea-Culture
http://stores.ebay.com/Chinese-Teapot-G ... ea-Culture