THE FACETED ONE

This Oribe style faceted teabowl came out of the kiln a short while ago, the first I had made in a couple of months (?) and as I was unloading the kiln I was particularly piqued by the fact that this bowl, the faceted one was in a kiln load of nothing but round stuff. I am not saying there is anything wrong with round pots, they seem to have set the standard for several millennium but now and again something not like everything else does in fact catch the eye. If memory serves me, this teabowl was thrown out of what was left of throwing lids off the hump and seemed just about the right amount of clay for the task and once faceted, tooled and fired is just the right weight for a bowl of its size which as always is on the larger side. I was pleased by the way the glaze worked and also of the posture of the bowl which appears to all be moving stage left in this photo. One of the realities of making these faceted bowls is that you can't really be 100% sure of what you will end up with, some disappoint and are wedged up, some are good and others seem to work straight across the board, I would like to think that this one off does exactly that.