Petr Novák - Pots under influence of tea

[Herb_Master]

Petr, I have been thinking abour your reply on Fair Cups for the last few days.

I have not seen any Fair Cups in your gallery, or in Photobucket, or your Tea Chat topic that come close to what I had in mind. However I do love lots of your finishes and would love to have a Fair Cup in one or more of them.

The Fair cups that I currently have come in these shapes (all between 120ml and 200ml) :-








I prefer it when the interior is a pale colour, to get an idea of the strength of the tea before I complete pouring from the teapot.


But would be interested in something a little taller and narrower to reduce the surface area at the top

such as this one I found on the web



I also sometimes use this Gaibei



but prefer it with jug or teapot style handle, thus I sometimes use a small teapot such as this 200ml glass teapot



In fact a jug is not to dissimilar to a teapot, without the lid, the top half of the spout removed, and the top lip of the teapot extended up slightly and flared out a little perhaps

I love the shape and colouring of your Sumo teapot, but it is too large for the purpose I have in mind - would it be possible to make a smaller version without lid, with a jug spout rather than a teapot spout and slight modifications to the top? In sizes such as 170 ml, 220 ml and 270 ml



I also love the shape and colouring of your Tree Bark pot, could it be turned into a Fair cup of 120ml , 180ml and 240 ml



I also like the TreeBark and Snakeskin Cups but could they also be made with the same exterior but with a whitish or very pale blue/green/yellow interior (yellow salt, prairie hay . . . ) and also in different sizes such as 50ml and 75ml



My current favourite cup for dinking YanCha is a fairly chunky Borneol holds only 50ml but weighs in at 116gm. The shape reminds me of a flower with slight indentations as if it was where the petals meet. These indentations make it a comfortable firm fit in my hand as well as looking attractive.



I don't know if you could make a cup in this style of 40ml, 50ml, 60ml or 70ml - fairly weighty, with a pale interior and any external finish such as Snakeskin, TreeBark,

- mmmn - a few ideas to throw at you

[Petr Novák]

Dear Herb_Master,

Really challenging thoughts …Tomorrow I will take some pictures of fair cups which I have in a stock- they do not fit exactly to your concepts but only for showing more possibilities…

Then it will takes time but I would like to try it. This kind of work can learn me a lot.

Here is older one…

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[Herb_Master]

Thanks Petr, that one looks nice.

I have 2 requirements.

1. To fill gaps in my Fair Cup collection size wise.

2. To find Fair Cups that will keep the tea warm longer when I am drinking slowly.

I am happy to start with Fair Cups that satisfy just one of those requirements.

Or do I have 3 Requiremets ?
I also want to get a good look at the colour of the brew in the faircup.

The one you have just illustrated looks nice, if it can be made in varying sizes, with something like a Tree Bark finish, I would certainly be interested.

From your work I have been looking mainly at some wonderful shapes and exterior decoration, what I don't know is if a selection of clay type, or a thicker wall, would give significantly longer heat retention to the brew.

[IPT]

Personally I use a second teapot as a fair cup. It keeps the tea hotter longer and I just love the look of having two teapots on my tea tray. Plus it gives me an excuse to buy more teapots.

Besides, think how great two of Petr's teapots sitting together would look on a tea tray.

[Petr Novák]

Yes ITP, second teapot is also solution. Sometime I use second teapot but sometime I prefer extra cup- usually for smaller amount of tea.

Herb_Master

I think I understand to your requirements and hopefully I can make some of these to the next firing (in tree weeks)

Here other pictures of fair cups

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Here you can see snake skin glaze on different clay body- porcelain cup and light stoneware fair cup on the right

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And here is one of my double walled cups. It has interesting feeling-it looks like big or heavy cup but than it suprice you that it is not- it is small and pretty light

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[IPT]

I really like the design of the fair cup on the right. I've never seen one quite like it!

[Geekgirl]

I really like the design of the fair cup on the right. I've never seen one quite like it!

Agreed, I was going to comment the same thing. Beautiful.

[Petr Novák]

I really like the design of the fair cup on the right. I've never seen one quite like it!

Agreed, I was going to comment the same thing. Beautiful.

Thank you, this one is from my kitchen for greens

[Seeker]

Hmmm, I really like the one on the left!

[Herb_Master]

Hmmm, I really like the one on the left!

+1

[rjiwrth]

You know you have it bad when you start dreaming about teaware.

This is the vision that kept circling my night journey last evening:

[Chip]

Here you can see snake skin glaze on different clay body- porcelain cup and light stoneware fair cup on the right

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...or Yuzamashi and cup pairing ... looking for the "right pot" to go with it. Of course, yeah, fair cup too ... this one could serve multiple purposes. Awesome.
The double wall cup looks amazing.

[rjiwrth]

Which is the double wall cup? My favorite is that snakeskin cup on the left. Is that a double wall?

[Chip]

Which is the double wall cup? My favorite is that snakeskin cup on the left. Is that a double wall?

No, the bottom one is a double wall cup, sort of crystaline looking glaze.

[Herb_Master]

Which is the double wall cup? My favorite is that snakeskin cup on the left. Is that a double wall?

No, the bottom one is a double wall cup, sort of crystaline looking glaze.

Come on Chip, weave your magic and show us the whole photo! without scroll bars

You saw crystalline, I saw something that reminded me of nacre!

AND I like it a lot too!

I wonder if Petr could do it with the same interior but a Tree Bark exterior!