John Baymore ... Wood-fired Chadogu and Pottery

[JBaymore]

This chawan is now in the permanent collection of the Pottery Capital Museum in Yixing, China. It has a wood ash glaze on the exterior, with a pooling rutile crystalline glaze on the interior, and with burnish gold accents in and out.

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best,

.........................john

[AdamMY]

Mother Lode indeed! Two beatuful chawans, glad to see they got really nice homes in a museum where they will be cared for and saved for future generations to see!

[NPE]

Phwooooar sorry - words cannot describe those chawans adequately

[hopeofdawn]

Beautiful photos--and pots! Thanks so much for sharing. Though I must confess, it seems a little sad that all those gorgeous teapots are forever stuck behind glass, never to be used to brew tea ...

[JBaymore]

Though I must confess, it seems a little sad that all those gorgeous teapots are forever stuck behind glass, never to be used to brew tea ...

Thanks for the kind comments everyone.

I do have the same sense of "loss" you mention (above) when my works like these Chawan go into cases in museums. While a great honor, for sure,........ these bowls were made carefully with great consideration to be well suited to actual Chanoyu use. Likely they will never see the life which they were born to live. So in that sense....... a little bittersweet.

best,

.....................john

[JBaymore]

Mother Lode indeed! Two beatuful chawans, glad to see they got really nice homes in a museum where they will be cared for and saved for future generations to see!

Phwooooar sorry - words cannot describe those chawans adequately

Beautiful photos--and pots! Thanks so much for sharing. Though I must confess, it seems a little sad that all those gorgeous teapots are forever stuck behind glass, never to be used to brew tea ...

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Thanks Adam, NPE, and Hopeofdawn,... I was really trying to get that quartz and gold vein look working.... and it seems like it is pretty effective.

best ,

.................john

[andrzej bero]

so beautiful chawan

[ethan]

besides looking so good, I think holding it would be very comfortable

[debunix]

besides looking so good, I think holding it would be very comfortable

Yes. I love the tactile sensations of thick crawling shino glazes--interesting but soft.

[Chip]

besides looking so good, I think holding it would be very comfortable

Yes. I love the tactile sensations of thick crawling shino glazes--interesting but soft.

As always, thanks for your posts debunix!

[JBaymore]

besides looking so good, I think holding it would be very comfortable

Yes. I love the tactile sensations of thick crawling shino glazes--interesting but soft.

Thanks, ethan and deb and andrez. The exterior does have a nice soft feel. The textural interior of this bowl is quite smooth for whisking purposes even though the visual is dramatic. A heavily crawled (or any other major texture) glaze there is a real problem for actual Chanoyu use.... which I design the bowls for. Kills whisks.

best,

............john

[JBaymore]

I'm pleased to share here that the following Chawan is one of the two of my bowls that were just accepted into the 2013 Kansas City National Teabowl competition/exhibition. It is American style raku. Forming is pinched and then carved in the Japanese-type traditional raku bowl method.

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best,

..............john

[debunix]

Ooh. Neat textural effects like a 'wave' in that image: was that carved, or a random result of the pinching process?

[JBaymore]

deb,

The "wave" is applied fine grained slip clay painted over the rough raku clay body. Creates contrast in surface through the overlying glaze coating.

best,

.................john

[debunix]

Nice effect, and cool to know how it was done!