TEA JAR

This Ao+ glazed tea jar was part of a group that I made a while back trying to get a feel for how several glazes and visual textures worked especially focusing in on applied medallions around some teabowls, an incense container and this small but useful tea jar for loose tea leaves or just about anything else you may want to use it for. At just about six inches tall, it is easy to deal with, doesn't take up much space and the lid fits rather well and the medallions add a lot of actual and visual texture to the little pot. I was originally going to mount a medallion on the top of the cap lid but thought that was overkill and instead went for a raised area tooled in to the top to seemingly insinuate an additional device like those around the pot. Nothing really complicated here, just a fun usable pot that got me thinking about techniques I haven't used for a long time; it is funny how easy it is to move on from something when there was never any reason to do so other that running toward something new.