DUSTED AND REVISITED

Okay, full disclosure, this is a bowl I have posted previously but recently rephotographed it once it was thoroughly dusted and clean. This teabowl is one of my saffron yellow over Hagi glazed bowls and I think this revisited image really shows off the character of the surface. The bowl was a small batch clay which once fired punctuates the glaze surface and adds quite a bit to the overall appearance of the piece. The real reason I have hung on to the teabowl all this time is that this is the best this glaze can be, others come very close but for some reason for a dip it in white and dip it in iron piece, the surface is just exactly what I want from this glaze and in fact there were actually three teabowls and a mizusashi in that firing that all came out at this level but I stubbornly held this on a shelf where as I mentioned it was covered in several years’ worth of dust. Now rephotographed it was placed back on the very same shelf in the very same spot where it is likely to collect several more years of dust before I pull it down again and ask, why can’t they all come out this way?