Re: Teabowls

by **MCWebs** September 29th 2019, 3:23 am

Chris Carter - Lava Tea Bowl

by **MCWebs** September 29th 2019, 3:25 am

Jean-Pierre Chollet - Many Beautiful Things going on in this Tea Bowl...

by **MCWebs** September 29th 2019, 3:30 am

Peter Black - Twisting Yunomi - Another Find from Clay College

by **NaomiM** September 29th 2019, 12:49 pm

Wonderful

A few more names on my wish list. Laughter

by **NaomiM** October 30th 2019, 8:51 pm

Buncheong ware sake bowl by Hajeong Lee

by **NaomiM** October 30th 2019, 8:54 pm

Very impressed by Katherine Kingdon’s work. Via Oxford Ceramics Fair

by **NaomiM** October 30th 2019, 8:59 pm

Karen Bunting, carved and combed guinomi

by **NaomiM** November 19th 2019, 7:22 pm

Andrew Mason

by **22 Crawford St.** November 19th 2019, 9:14 pm

Katherine Kingdon is fun. Did not know that RF did porcelain.

by **Grumpy Grandad** November 19th 2019, 10:52 pm

Please forgive my naivety but looking through this thread it seems that teabowls come in all shapes and sizes, so what differentiates a teabowl from, say, a rice bowl? Most of the pieces shown here I wouldn't hesitate to identify as teabowls, but certainly not all of them. The Mason bowl above, for example, is one that I would never have thought is a teabowl. Would it be too simplistic to assume that it's the foot that makes the bowl a teabowl?

by **NaomiM** November 19th 2019, 11:28 pm

Lol, we’re not purists. Some of the bowls are summer chawans but double as noodle or cereal bowls etc. And there are a lot of Western Studio potters who have taken the form into a whole new genre of non-oriental tea bowls. Some might label them as beakers, whiskey sippers, etc. I’m not going to argue with anyone else’s classifications. It’s just collecting for fun and I put mine on here to keep track of them.

by **22 Crawford St.** November 19th 2019, 11:34 pm

In my opinion there are a vast amount of bandwagon tea bowl potters out there. If there is a demand then people will fill that demand. No one want posy rings any more.

I think Naomi originally posted this a year or two ago

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by **NaomiM** November 26th 2019, 11:07 pm

Martin Harman, his student work via eBay

by **denbydump** November 27th 2019, 12:18 am

22 Crawford St. wrote:In my opinion there are a vast amount of bandwagon tea bowl potters out there. If there is a demand then people will fill that demand. No one want posy rings any more.

I think things have changed, from a tea-bowl in all it's forms, as a functional piece, to being a form that potters can just go mad with,
and do almost anything they want. Naomi's fantastic examples show how these small and collectable bowls are now going towards
becoming the potter's signature pieces. in the Japanese tradition.

I have a few, but will always look for more.

by **NaomiM** November 27th 2019, 12:30 am

If modern studio pottery teabowls have little or no merit then how come it’s a bandwagon? Collectors are told they are not true teabowls; they are a bastardisation of the Japanese form, and yet they are still keenly sought, and this demand inevitably fuels the price.
As Denby says, it’s because they have become the potters’ signature pieces; often one-off pieces rather than the potters’ standard ware. They are mini art forms in their own right.

by **22 Crawford St.** November 27th 2019, 12:46 am

Well I an sum it up. You are not a decent potter if you offer a teabowl. I still say they are a fashion that will come and go = Bandwagon

After all it's just a lump of heated clay. There is nothing intrinsically special about this form, only the connotations we bring from the past. Fashion comes and goes.

I'm sure the queen still drinks her morning cuppa from a Sports Direct mug.

by **NaomiM** November 29th 2019, 2:11 am

Many well respected potters from Bernard Leach to Warren Mackenzie to Lisa Hammond made/make tea bowls.

by **dantheman** November 29th 2019, 9:50 am

if a pot has a pleasing form and glaze then who cares if it's a tea bowl or vase?

by **22 Crawford St.** November 29th 2019, 8:09 pm

Well my point is that toilet roll holders, colanders and posy rings probably won't sell as well now as a your Teabowl/Chawan/Yunomi etc . They are de rigueur. There are plenty of potters out there making things about the right shape and size and selling them as 'teabowls'.

by **NaomiM** November 29th 2019, 8:17 pm

But that’s part of their charm. They’re not standard ware or utilitarian ware. They’re art objects in their own right, and many are one offs.

by **tenpot** November 30th 2019, 9:03 am

the earliest japanese tea bowls used in the tea ceremony were apparently recycled rice bowls from Korea

by **NaomiM** December 18th 2019, 2:24 am

Chawan or noodle bowl. Unmarked. Probably Korean based on the messier decoration on an otherwise well thrown bowl but lacks the little circles of sand in the centre where they placed the next pot when piling them up in the kiln.
Edited to say, came acros another one recently, described as Karatsu ware so probably Japanese