Tea Bowls

Tea bowls in the Japanese style are a natural choice for pinch building techniques. The bowl is about as large as I can comfortably manipulate. The result is also a size that is comfortable to hold. Within the traditional asethetics associated with the appreciation of tea, it is quite natural to leave the marks of the making on the pot.

		A gloss black with slight crawling effect.
		A glossy, dark-brown tea bowl. Lighter interior was splashed with an ash glaze.
		Blue-grey and brown tea bowl.
		Base glaze with ~10% RIO is black where thicker. Lines formed by wiping my thumb across "cheese hard" clay.
		Lighter tea bowl with sprayed decorations.
		A smaller variation on the blue-grey color.