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vinessa landolt - L'Esperimento Della Maiolica (The Majolica Experiment)
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FEATURE: Home of famous potter influenced by Japan is saved for public+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)LONDON, March 20_(Kyodo) _ The workshop of Bernard Leach, who drew much of his inspiration from Japan and led the craft pottery movement, is to be restored to its former glory.
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8000-year-old pottery, kilns found near Shahrud

Monday, March 13, 2006 - c2005 IranMania.com

LONDON, March 13 (IranMania) - A team of Iranian archaeologists has discovered kilns, some pottery, and several stone blades during the current phase of excavations at the 8000-year-old Deh-Kheyr tepe, which is located near Shahrud in Semnan Province.

?The discoveries indicate that the site might have been an industrial region in ancient times,? team director Hassan Rezvani told IRNA.

Excavations carried out over the past few years by Iranian and Japanese experts at Deh-Kheyr and Tappeh-Chakhmanq, south of Shahrud, resulted in the discovery of traces from the Neolithic era (circa 9000?8000 BC), putting the region on the archaeological map.

In the new phase of excavations, the cultural sequence of this era and previous periods will be studied, Rezvani said.

After the Neolithic era, people settled in the Shahrud region due to its hospitable environment, he added.

Shahrud is located 398 kilometers east of Tehran and the Deh-Kheyr tepe is 15 kilometers north of the city.

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A Kangxi Turquoise Wine Ewer
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Cadogan ewer
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How it works:

The pot has a hole in the base with a tube running from it to near the inside top; thus it can be filled through the bottom then turned the right way up without spilling. For those of you old enough to remember, they are a bit like an inverted non-spill inkwell with spout and handle added.
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Bernard Leach's famous pottery in St. Ives will be saved as a result of recent funding decisions. Penwith District Council, the Bernard Leach (St. Ives) Trust and St. Ives Town Council are very pleased to announce that the Leach Pottery Restoration Project in St. Ives has been awarded ��450,767 by the European Regional Development Fund and ��100,000 from the Rural Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Partnership, who deliver Rural Renaissance funding on behalf of the South West Regional Development Agency.
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Never Before Published Interview
Between Kamoda Shoji and Hasegawa Kimiyuki (Art Critic)
Honoho Geijutsu, Issue 17 (1989, Abe Publishing)
February 1980
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Wabi Sabi
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CLaude Gagaon's Kamataki web site is fleshed out a little bit more.
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The Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park has chosen a successor to Martha Longenecker, its founding director. James Goodwin, who served most recently as the consulting director of the Craft & Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles, will begin work Monday.
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Richard Burkett: Between Pottery and Sculpture
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10/01/2005 - 10:57 Medieval pottery in the Basque Country (VIII-XIII centuries)

To transform ceramic artefacts into items of historical knowledge, they need to have been previously transformed into reliable chronological indicators.

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Introduction.
The Arts and Crafts Movement
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The dispatch of troops to the Korean Peninsula by the Toyotomi Government, that is, the two wars "Bunroku" and "Keicho" (A.C. 1592 and 1597) are sometimes called the "Pottery Wars."

Through these two wars, Korean potters were brought to Japan by feudal lords of Kyushu and made to produce pottery through their skill in the lords' own fiefs. Due to this, Japan made great progress in pottery production. Korean techniques are roughly classified into "kickwheel" and "climbing kiln."



Tools for the potter's wheel

Various painting tools including a pair of compasses


In those days Japan had merely simple wheels to turn by hand. The kickwheel has another slab below the shaft of the revolving wheelslab. The potter can revolve the upper wheelslab by kicking the lower slab with his foot. For this, the potter can constantly use his both hands while freely revolving the wheel with his foot at the speed he desires. As a result, mass-production became possible.

The climbing kiln consists of a series of small chambers constructed on a hillside. The potter throws firewood into each chamber one after another from the lower level upward through the fire port on each side. Until that time, kilns used in Japan were "single-chamber celler kiln," which were built on a hillside by boring a hole through it. Introduction of this climbing kiln was an epoch-making event, resulting in preventing much waste of labor and firewood. Karatsu-ware, Ueno-ware, Takatori-ware, Satsuma-ware of Kyushu, and Hagi-ware of Honshu ware quick to adopt this climbing kiln.

In 1616, Risampei, a Korean potter, discovered porcelain stone in the Arita area (present Arita City of Kyushu) and made porcelain for the first time. This is called "Old-Imari-ware" and, based on this, a gorgeous color painting world was created, such as "Somenishiki-Imari-ware," "Kakiemon-ware, "Nabeshima-ware," etc.

When we thus look on the history of Japanese pottery, the role played by potters who came to Japan from Korea was very great and they added porcelain to the history of pottery.
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