THE VERY FIRST

I was digging through a box in the studio filled with pottery tools, sponges, clock parts and more when I found a little pot wrapped in a piece of THE CLEVELAND PLAINDEALER newspaper from 1990 where I discovered the very first. To be clear, this is the very first "tea caddy" that I ever made or fired and not at all traditional like a chaire I basically made a diminutive covered jar with a cut, tripod foot. The surface is four layers, three sprayed to create this look and well the squares were liberally borrowed from a well known Hagi potter. This series of pots were a lot of fun to make and though it isn't really anything but a small covered jar, this was how I thought an American potter would develop a pot specific for powdered tea if chanoyu evolved here. That is my story and I am sticking to it.