Teabowls

Waiting for him to do his pink ones. He seems stuck on yellow atm.

My most expensive so far was the second Ernest Miller, but that was because of the postage.
Some US post offices seem to go completely overboard and over charge by double what others charge, regardless of where they are in the country.
One poor potter had been quoted £40 to ship to me, for a £13 yunomi! Or £55 if I wanted it insured. I declined.
Another said they'd been quoted £30 over the phone but when they took it in it was under £20.

Mystery yunomi with black clay and barium glaze

Chawan with metallic copper glaze by Ceramic soul

White porcelain yunomi with black dot and green flower decals by Tom Budzak

The difference between an American whisky cup and a yunomi is illustrated by this woodfired cup from US potter Hannah Meredith, Mendocino, CA

Martin & Pam, Trawden Pottery

Not sure how small a tea bowl can be or even if this is a small one - perhaps those with more experience in these pots can offer their thoughts. Not even sure if the japanese signature is the right way up.
It's made with marbling 2 colours of clay, folded in to make the base, then adding a base ring on.
Size is more like an egg cup. about 2 inches across

Ian

Very nice. I've come across these mixed clay, Japanese tea bowls before, but I forget the prefecture that makes them. I'll look it up.

Trevor Corser , Leach Pottery

How do you know what is a tea bowl and what isnt ?

its a sliding scale, Brin. You have your chawans which are wider than they're tall, then your yunomis which are taller than they're wide. Then your guinomis, or saki cups, which are smaller.
But then you've got your traditional Japanese style teabowls, and your modern interpretations of the traditional Japanese form. Then there are the contemporary studio pottery versions. And then you have your whiskey cups and tumblers which in no way, shape or form could be called a yunomi.

ian Marlow wrote:Not sure how small a tea bowl can be or even if this is a small one - perhaps those with more experience in these pots can offer their thoughts. Not even sure if the japanese signature is the right way up.
It's made with marbling 2 colours of clay, folded in to make the base, then adding a base ring on.
Size is more like an egg cup. about 2 inches across

Ian

If you search on 'neriage' you'll find other marble ware yunomis

on an amercan potters forum they said if you don't put a handle on a tea cup you can sell it for more as a tea bowl

ian Marlow wrote:Not sure how small a tea bowl can be or even if this is a small one - perhaps those with more experience in these pots can offer their thoughts. Not even sure if the japanese signature is the right way up.
It's made with marbling 2 colours of clay, folded in to make the base, then adding a base ring on.
Size is more like an egg cup. about 2 inches across

Ian

It's a sake cup aka guinomi.

Neriage originates in Sung dynasty China and pots are made in this style in many pottery areas of Japan, although it isn't widely made. Can't say for certain from the style where your guinomi was made and don't recognise the mark but it might possibly be from Seto or Mino.

This is a neriage or nerikomi style yunomi made in Bizen by Tomoyuki Matsui. In 1996 he was awarded the title of Intangible Cultural Asset for Bizen Ware by the Okayama Prefecture.

Yunomi by Kazem Arshi, CA (ocpottery on Etsy)

Yunomi by Jeff Guerrero, Pittsburgh, (GuerreroCeramics on Etsy)

Namako Tea cup by Michael Martino, Japan,   (Karatsupots on Etsy)

Not a teabowl, but only because I bought the one with the lid.
Kohiki lidded pot by Akira Satake

Japanese tenmoku chawan by Tozaburo Kato that I sold recently.

Love the drips :)

Pavel Zamikhovsky, Germany

NaomiM wrote:Love the drips :)

That's why I bought it in the first place.

Chawan first appeared in China at a temple in the Tianmu mountains (Tenmoku in Japanese) where they were used to drink tea. These were shaped like this one and the glaze was usually a dark brown iron containing glaze but not always. Of course we in the West use the term, tenmoku, to describe the glaze and not the shape, which isn't strictly correct.

In the 13th century, the forebear of this Kato family of potters, Fujino Shirobe, went to China to study pottery and came back with the techniques and glazes used in this example of Seto pottery.