Re: Teabowls

by **Potty** Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:22 am

Many look like Yunomi's to me Diane, nice collection Most Excellent

by **DIANE** Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:29 am

How do you define a yunomi?

by **Potty** Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:45 am

Yunomi's are also tea bowls, but are generally taller and thinner than Chawans as I understand it. (Size does matter! Big Laughter

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A Guinomi would be a saki cup and is much smaller than a Yunomi / Chawan.

I think the above is correct, but SP would be the best to advise Most Excellent

by **studio-pots** Wed Jun 05, 2013 7:56 am

DIANE wrote:How do you define a yunomi?

That Potty's got it more or less right except that a yunomi is a cup rather than a bowl and is used in Japan for drinking green tea and held in one hand - look upon it as a mug without a handle.

A chawan is the same as a teabowl and in Japan would be used in the Tea Ceremony - it's held in two hands and the "tea" is thick and looks like pea soup. So not for everyday use and it is traditionally the most expensive item that a Japanese potter makes. I exhibited a potter whose vases around 25cm/10 inches high were £250 and some of his teabowls were £1200. I didn't sell any of the latter.

by **big ed** Wed Jun 05, 2013 7:07 pm

studio-pots wrote:The teabowl below is something that I don't think that I would ever consider selling.

A few years ago the "Gnarly Dudes" did make the use of shells on wood-fired pots a bit of a cliche but this is the real thing - a wood fired chawan from Shigaraki by Hajimu Kato.

Kato's mark is at 11 o'clock in the last picture under the ash.

Just the sort of stuff that appeals to me ,you just wanna touch Most Excellent

by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:50 am

Ian auld.

by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:52 am

Bill Marshall.

by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:55 am

Rupert Spira at Wenford Briddge. One of the last of Michael Cardew's pupils.

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by **big ed** Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:22 am

philpot wrote:Ian auld.

Never seen this glaze by him before interesting , is it marked ?

by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:02 pm

Mike Dodd,

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by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:04 pm

Phil Rogers

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by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:06 pm

Phil Rogers.

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by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:08 pm

Takeshi Yasuda

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by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:11 pm

Jim Malone,

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by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:14 pm

St Ives,

by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:15 pm

Lisa Hammond.

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by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:17 pm

Mike Dodd.

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by **philpot** Mon Jun 17, 2013 3:20 pm

Mike Dodd.

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by **studio-pots** Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:11 am

With some potters, whose work I like, it takes an age to find something that really appeals and the Lisa Hammond yunomi below is one such example: -

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by **dantheman** Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:43 am

I know what you mean,for the past 4 years I have scrutinised every pot on her stall at Earth and Fire then walk away empty handed Laughter

by **dantheman** Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:39 pm

some might say so Phil, I often will stand chatting with a seller for half an hour about every aspect of his wares but walk away empty handed.

by **philpot** Wed Jun 19, 2013 2:58 am

Just for you Dan.... Happy

I've had it for a very long time.Picked up at Charity Shop or Boot Sale,I can't even remember now. I've always interpreted the mark via Yates-Owen,as Ian Auld. But I'm sure I might well be disabused right now! Happy

by **philpot** Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:00 am

And while we are at it. Any opinions on this mark on a fairly standard Yunomi?

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by **Potty** Wed Jun 19, 2013 3:35 am

philpot wrote:Just for you Dan....

I've had it for a very long time.Picked up at Charity Shop or Boot Sale,I can't even remember now. I've always interpreted the mark via Yates-Owen,as Ian Auld. But I'm sure I might well be disabused right now!

Looks like Tim Andrews mark to me to be honest.

by **big ed** Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:05 am

3 small teacups / bowls , bought from Alex Tonkinson not marked , but hey ! at 50p each Laughter

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