Teabowls

£11.00 !

Not sure how small a tea bowl can be or even if this is a small one - perhaps those with more experience in these pots can offer their thoughts. Not even sure if the japanese signature is the right way up.
It's made with marbling 2 colours of clay, folded in to make the base, then adding a base ring on.
Size is more like an egg cup. about 2 inches across

Ian

Trevor Corser , Leach Pottery

How do you know what is a tea bowl and what isnt ?

on an amercan potters forum they said if you don't put a handle on a tea cup you can sell it for more as a tea bowl

ian Marlow wrote:Not sure how small a tea bowl can be or even if this is a small one - perhaps those with more experience in these pots can offer their thoughts. Not even sure if the japanese signature is the right way up.
It's made with marbling 2 colours of clay, folded in to make the base, then adding a base ring on.
Size is more like an egg cup. about 2 inches across

Ian

It's a sake cup aka guinomi.

Neriage originates in Sung dynasty China and pots are made in this style in many pottery areas of Japan, although it isn't widely made. Can't say for certain from the style where your guinomi was made and don't recognise the mark but it might possibly be from Seto or Mino.

This is a neriage or nerikomi style yunomi made in Bizen by Tomoyuki Matsui. In 1996 he was awarded the title of Intangible Cultural Asset for Bizen Ware by the Okayama Prefecture.

Japanese tenmoku chawan by Tozaburo Kato that I sold recently.

NaomiM wrote:Love the drips :)

That's why I bought it in the first place.

Chawan first appeared in China at a temple in the Tianmu mountains (Tenmoku in Japanese) where they were used to drink tea. These were shaped like this one and the glaze was usually a dark brown iron containing glaze but not always. Of course we in the West use the term, tenmoku, to describe the glaze and not the shape, which isn't strictly correct.

In the 13th century, the forebear of this Kato family of potters, Fujino Shirobe, went to China to study pottery and came back with the techniques and glazes used in this example of Seto pottery.