Teabowls

paul stapleton 2024 salt glazed

Katharina Klug

Standing cranes Kyo-yaki meoto, Seizan kiln, Kyoto, Japan

Nicola Gillis, Brighton

By Anne Egitto, Lawrence, Kansas

Trevor Chaplin

Eric Faure, France

By German potter Janne Hieck, based in Tolne, North Jutland

Lovely yunomi by Shigaraki potter 谷井芳山 Tanii Hōzan

Iain Shield, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Kevala Ceramics

Genuine question: when does a bowl/cup become a "tea bowl"? OK, often a potter may create it specifically as that, in the sense of the Japanese tradition. But is the term also used as a retrospective marketing term by sellers? Asking because I'm often genuinely puzzled about what to call small cup or bowl-like pots

There are no hard and fast rules for studio potters. Although, as a general rule of thumb, if it has a wide base and straight or sloping sides it’s a beaker - there are beakers on this thread. If it has a small foot it’s a tea bowl. But it’s up to the collector and the potter to agree that what is being sold is a tea bowl is one and not just a beaker with a fancy price on it. Those potters who have some appreciation of the Japanese art form are more successful at making them, while putting their own interpretation on it, than those who don’t.

Bert Jones

Hannah Leigh

Kat Wheeler

Iain Shield at Waterperrys

Robert Rivett and Debbie Fieldhouse, Cellar Ceramics

Eren Armitage