Illustrated is large yunomi
teacup that I made a while back. Taking a few cues from a famous amber glazed
Ohi chawan the piece was first thrown on the thick side and then once it
started firming up, I gently push it a slightly off round and pinched the form
to get it into the posture I was after. I let it dry a some more and then
proceeded to cut fast and very random facets down its sides. I hand tooled the
piece first with a sharp piece of bamboo to get the foot I was after and then
used a small loop tool to excise some clay in the form of a sharp spiral. Once
bisque, I glazed the yunomi in a medium coat of my lepidolite glaze and when fired
the sharp lines from the faceted broke to a lighter color creating a nice
vertical distraction around the pot. Where the glaze ran the Oribe is a vivid
and rich deep green, particularly the cuts around the foot and in the pool of
the cup. I am constantly amazed at the versatility and variations within the
different Oribe glazes I use and can only wonder, what will the next pot look
like blanketed in green.
"Sameness is the mother of
disgust, variety the cure." Petrarch (1304-1374)
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