I have to admit, this covered jar was nearly impossible for
me to photograph accurately. Thrown out of stoneware with black and then combed
white slip, the base glaze was my Oribe and over that went two different iron
glazes to the effect you see here. As you may be able to tell, the secondary
glazes were applied to just below the combed slip and during the firing they
all melted and ran down the pot thanks to our constant companions, gravity and
thermodynamics. The result is a rather broody appearing slip-jar with a variety
of colors running down the surface with the combed slip design calling out,
what about me? This wasn’t exactly what I had been going for but considering
this application had only been tried out on smaller pieces, I can’t honestly
say that I really knew the final outcome. What I can tell you is that I had
made five of these covered jars in total, two fairly traditional Oribe, one
amber and then two in what ever this version of Kuro-Oribe should be called,
maybe I should go with Burūgurē-Oribe moving forward?
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