Re: Teabowls

by **studio-pots** March 19th 2022, 10:37 pm

I have been looking at his work of late but haven't seen any with the glaze as good as that.

by **NaomiM** March 19th 2022, 11:26 pm

There have been a number of Matsubara’s pots for sale recently but I saw that Steve Booton had one of his with this blue & white shino glaze so I searched around and found a pair in Japan on Etsy

by **studio-pots** March 20th 2022, 8:20 am

You must have quite quite a collection of teabowls etc. from around the world now. Do you have them on display and is there an aim? For example are you trying to get an example by every potter that you admire.

by **NaomiM** March 20th 2022, 1:39 pm

I guess it’s three fold.
Firstly I have a wish list of good modern studio tea bowl makers such as Akira Satake, and Campbell Hegan, who I’ll buy at some point.
Secondly there are potters who’s work I love, such as Steve Booton and Tomoo Hamada, and I’ll add to the general collection each year, but preferably tea bowls because otherwise the choice is just too large or out of my price range, and I have one eye on resale and a lot of pot forms don’t have a resale market, but I think tea bowls will continue to be collected in decades to come.
And thirdly I like to support new potters at the fairs and on Etsy and some of the Galleries like St Ives, Thrown and New Ashgate. And if they make teabowls then that’s my preferred choice of pot. And Etsy means I’m not limited to this country, and I can buy direct from the potters, and in some cases, have the pick of the kiln.

by **studio-pots** March 20th 2022, 11:16 pm

That's all very laudable and I agree with you about teabowls.

by **NaomiM** March 31st 2022, 1:06 am

Ronan Kyle Peterson, Nine Toes Pottery, NC, USA

by **NaomiM** April 8th 2022, 11:11 pm

Micki Schloessingk

by **NaomiM** May 9th 2022, 8:34 am

Peter Sparrey

by **NaomiM** May 9th 2022, 8:42 am

Robert Ayton

by **NaomiM** May 11th 2022, 8:36 pm

Hannah Leigh

by **NaomiM** June 28th 2022, 9:30 pm

Iain Shield. Fired in the Oxford Anagama Kiln

by **NaomiM** July 3rd 2022, 4:34 pm

Paul Bradley

by **NaomiM** July 19th 2022, 8:47 pm

Mashiko, I think. Unsigned

by **NaomiM** July 26th 2022, 12:34 am

Ania Perkowska, via Waterperrys ceramics fair

by **NaomiM** August 13th 2022, 1:13 am

Hagi ware guinomi by Yukihisa Futaba, Japan

by **NaomiM** August 17th 2022, 6:10 pm

Oribe ware “monster” Yunomi by Natsu Nishiyama via Goldmark Gallery. Top of my wish list for awhile. Glad I had a good idea what it would look like because Goldmark’s photos of her exhibition are rubbish.

by **studio-pots** August 18th 2022, 8:40 pm

You are correct about the photos and there is absolutely no real information about her that I could find on the website. I have never heard of her so can you tell me more?

by **NaomiM** August 18th 2022, 9:05 pm

Not much of a bio on Goldmark's website. There were a number of her pieces in the Leonard and Alison Shurz auction but Partridges just quoted from Goldmark. Found a video on the Goldmark website

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhjcyYEuu_g

I suspect you'd need to search in Japanese for more

by **studio-pots** August 22nd 2022, 8:57 pm

Thanks, Naomi.

I think the video tells me everything i.e. that's she quite young; uses many different Japanese glaze styles and moved to Mashiko and that's how they would have come across her.

by PotteryMaim August 29th 2022, 5:31 pm

About perfectly leaky Japanese teabowls. Is that about the impermanence of things or about using green tea for surface cleaning and handwashing, or...

by **NaomiM** August 29th 2022, 5:39 pm

Hagi ware is the porous pottery used for tea bowls amongst other things. Each Prefecture in Japan has a different type of clay which has different properties. Hagi ware was found to be porous and changes colour over time as the tannin from the tea seeps in. The pots should be used regularly to build up a golden hue. I think it's believed to make the tea taste milder, but at the end of the day it's simply a function of the type of clay available in the region.

by **NaomiM** November 13th 2022, 8:01 pm

James Hake

by **NaomiM** November 13th 2022, 8:06 pm

Deborah Marock via Oxford Ceramics Fair 2022

by **NaomiM** November 13th 2022, 8:11 pm

Tarragon Smith, via Oxford Ceramics Fair, 2022

by **NaomiM** November 28th 2022, 9:03 pm

Noriko Eki, via Kigbeare Studios
Based in Mashiko, Japan

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