That's cool, is it a Chawan, or is it Chinese though? Also, your avatar, Chinese or Japanese royalty I am guessing?TomVerlain wrote:I wanted to add a piece I got recently, an oil spot bowl, watched over here by a foo dog.
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I have several Japanese pieces that have pools of what look like green cracked glass in the bottom of each.Mary R wrote:I've got a friend who's taken up ceramics, and she thinks that Strommen might get that trademark green pool by putting roughly ground green glass in that depression. I guess the kiln melts it into that crackly-smooth wonderness that's just ever so different from standard glaze. Does that sound plausible to any potters/ceramicists out there?
The first is a set of three cups and my understanding from the 2000Cranes website where I purchased them is that the emerald green pool is from the use of pine glaze. The whole inside of each cup has a light coating, with the pool apparently collecting and forming in the bottom.
I have two Iga matcha chawan with pools in the center. I don't know how these were formed, but this is common with Iga pottery. It appears that like the cups, the green glaze was applied over other glaze and collected in the center of the bowl's bottom. The two chawan were by the same artisan, yet one is a darker green and the other is like crystal-clear emeralds. I think this shows that using glaze to achieve this affect is hard to control.
The pictures of the Strommen do like like individual pieces of glass melted together. The Japanese pieces look more like a single piece of glass that was cracked after it was formed.
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I went to a pottery show and came very close to buying a Bizen-style chawan that was absolutely stunning ($65). But I walked away without it after reminding myself of the cost of my recent orders from Jing Tea Shop and TeaSpring.
And I'm glad I did it. (I think.)
Hey, do we have a thread for people who are resisting temptation?
And I'm glad I did it. (I think.)
Hey, do we have a thread for people who are resisting temptation?
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I went to Paris during my holidays. I bought some nice teaware and visited the famous Mariage Freres teashop and their tearoom as well. Mariage Freres is founded in 1854 and they sell like 600 different teas. They have several shops in Paris and I visited the oldest one in Le Marais. It was a charming old-fashiohed place with wooden floors and shelves piled with tea jars. They have quite a clever selling strategy which I didn't realize at first. When I went there for the second time to buy a glass teacup I was served by a very charming Frenchman who handed me my purchase looking directly to my eyes smiling in a way that made my knees wobble. When I came to my senses I started to look around and realized that all salespeople were very handsome young(ish) men! And most of the customers were women... Anyway, here are some pictures of the aforementioned teacup and some chataku I bought.
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