This came out of a 12 hour wood firing.


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Ash goes black nicely.
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This shino type glaze pinholed nicely. Glaze faults are desireable in many traditional glazes and cause no problems in vitreous ware.
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MacKenize on All Things Considered.
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Mashiko Forest Park Inn

A place to stay in Mashiko. Includes a French Resturant: * Business hour Morning 9:00-10:00/Lunch 12:00-14:00 (LO) /Tea 14:00-16:30/Diner 17:00-19:30 (LO)
* Fixed holiday Wednesday
Inquiry TEL. 0285 (72) 0317
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Ichiro Kimura Platter
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The Imperfect Beauty of Ido Teabowls.
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Gee's Bend Quilts. These works are "crazed" with fault: irregular stitching, crooked lines, but these "faults" are exactly what makes them beautiful art.
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Kizaemon Ido tea bowl. Made about 400 years ago. Started out as a Korean ricebowl. Exhibits all kinds of glaze flaws but is considered by many people the finest pot ever made.
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More Ido!
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Futaoki: tea ceremony lid rests, about 5cm X 5cm.
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Chinese ceramics were admired in Iraq for their shiny white surfaces and hard body. As neither the essential raw materials nor the appropriate firing technology were locally available, Islamic potters therefore created their own versions by covering finely potted yellow clay hemispherical bowls with a glaze that turned opaque after firing, creating ceramics that were described as "pearl cups like the moon." This technique offered the potters an ideal canvas for bold decorative designs, first in cobalt blue and then with "luster"; mixtures of copper and silver that were painted onto the glaze then fixed in a second firing.
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A Brief History of Chanoyu. Tea and Zen are inseperable...



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My latest signature quote is from Yeats' "The Celtic Twilight":

"We can make our minds
so like still water
that beings gather about us
that they may see,...
....their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer,
perhaps even with a fiercer life
because of our quiet." -- W. B. Yeats
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Kamada Koji: Yuteki (oil spot ) and Yohen Tenmoku to measure against. He does both the glaze and the related Tenmoku shape. These are all fired in electric oxidation kiln.
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Kamada Koji Google Image Search
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Oldest post in ClayArt bitserv archive.
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Dave The Potter gives us a new view on what it means to sign. Here is one of his inscriptions: "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation any one who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him."
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"Dave The Potter" web search on Google.
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Dave wrote things on his pots like: "I made this jar all of cross If you dont repent, you will be losth and is inscribed gMay 3 1862 LM Dave."
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Alkaline Glazed American Pot by "Dave the Potter."
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Your Tax Dollars At Work! The Smithsonian makes me proud to be an American.
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Museum Of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka. The most awesome collection of Korean ceramics in the world. The photos of the collection includes photos of the feet!
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