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Check out this thrift store find! Gonna sodium percarbonate it and then see how it performs.

Another dragon! Seems to be of better workmanship than the previous one, more detail on the dragon and the fish.

Didn't see a thread for generalized western unglazed wares, so I decided to make one! I figure there's lots of varied one-off art pottery pieces who's creators probably don't each deserve their own thread. I'll start off with a buff/yellow stoneware teapot made after Anderson Ranch Arts Center, whic...

Far rarer & more valuable is this set of eight tea plates by Living National Treasure Tsukamoto Kaiji 塚本快示. Unfortunately my camera can only do the fineness of detail so much justice...

Lidded mug by Anta Pottery of Taiwan.

Two teacups and saucers of Canton exportware.

Two unmarked bizen-yaki teacups.

Similar to the previous, but clay isn't as good and (I presume) later in manufacture. The other pot seems to be heini/black star zini.

Sadly, cracked. It's only part way through one of the walls, so maybe staples could suitably repair it.

Seemingly, an LQER kettle. But I'm uncertain of wares from this era and leery of fakes.

I think my interest is more in 'unglazed stoneware' in general over just Yixing. It just so happens that Yixing is most of the market. Couple new pieces! Some I'm more sure and others I'm less sure about.

On my pots from this period, it corresponds with an internal joining of clay as if the top and the bottom half of the teapot body were pressed together from two separate molds. This is seemingly in contrast to documented half-handmade techniques which use a press mold for the whole of the teapot bod...

Two vintage pieces today! One of them unfortunately had a chip on its rim and was reglued - uncertain of the safety of removing the adhesive without damaging the piece further. The other is flawless and has a very interesting conical-shaped ball filter.

Pre-factory?