Wednesday, November 6, 2024
HISSEN-GATA
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while back I was playing with a number of teabowl forms and decided to revive a
style I had not made in a rather long time, the hissen-gata chawan (brush washing teabowl). This bowl was thrown out of porcelain and
pushed slightly oval and I decided to go all in with the drama and cut in the
recesses a bit deep to over-accentuate the look of the lip and bowl overall.
Once tooled I applied thich slip and combed it from foot to lip creating a
slight sense of movememnt around the bowl and glazed it over in saffron yellow
which honestly makes it glow a bit depending on the light source. As a
by-product of how this was glazed, the interior has nearly perfect lines of
running glaze culminating at the interior spiral which has filled with glaze
and is a deep, rich and dark amber in color. I made a couple of these and though
the opinions are mixed, this is perhaps the best of the group and after all,
the sun seems pleased enough to lend a hand in showing off the details and
nuances of the bowl so who am I to argue.
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