TA&H2

Illustrated is a thrown, altered and hacked at square teabowl that I posted up a while back just after it was freshly slipped. The finished product shows the heavily fluted bowl glazed with an Oribe glaze and areas of thick, deep green running diagonally following the flutes around the bowl. I was able to encourage the glaze running by brushing an added layer or black iron over the ridge areas and you can see the results. As you may guess this is a large teabowl and though it was made as such, I suspect it can fill just about any function you put your mind to from filling it with dip to standing upright biscotti in it. There was something a lot of fun about squaring up this form, getting the exterior lines just right and then just quickly and asymmetrically fluting the surface bringing a slight amount of chaos to an otherwise well planned out geometric form.

"From chaos, comes order."  Nietzsche