European Teaware
@lUKAV28 thanks for starting this interesting thread. Some really nice teaware here. With no sack or curve on the underside of Jiří Duchek’s spouts, how is the pour? They are pretty straight.
I have two interesting very wabi-sabi, highly textured and tactile pieces by a mystery artist named Nijuboshi who lives (or lived) in France. Another French tea aficionado bought some of his ceramics a few years ago but now says he doesn’t have any news about him. I bought two pieces from him, a chawan and a tea caddie. According to to the guy I bought these from “Nijuboshi lived in France and built a tiny wood fire kiln in his garden. He brought clay from his walks in the mountain of the Alpes de Haute Provence, 'just enough to make one bowl or two each time’. He put the clay in his pockets and made the bowl back home. He is a very mystical person, secret and mysterious.“
Wood-fired chawan and tea caddie by the artist Nijuboshi, made from clay harvested by the artist in the mountain of the Alpes de Haute Provence. Screen shots courtesy of French vendor.
I have two interesting very wabi-sabi, highly textured and tactile pieces by a mystery artist named Nijuboshi who lives (or lived) in France. Another French tea aficionado bought some of his ceramics a few years ago but now says he doesn’t have any news about him. I bought two pieces from him, a chawan and a tea caddie. According to to the guy I bought these from “Nijuboshi lived in France and built a tiny wood fire kiln in his garden. He brought clay from his walks in the mountain of the Alpes de Haute Provence, 'just enough to make one bowl or two each time’. He put the clay in his pockets and made the bowl back home. He is a very mystical person, secret and mysterious.“
Wood-fired chawan and tea caddie by the artist Nijuboshi, made from clay harvested by the artist in the mountain of the Alpes de Haute Provence. Screen shots courtesy of French vendor.
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I was referring to the way one pours very slowly usually for Japanese teas and does not fill the pot to the brim/aka waterline, so dribbling is not such an issue...
Yeah, a dribbling spout is still an issue with certain kyusu. Pouring slowly doesn’t change that. In @Chip’s 12 Days of Kyusu thread he talks quite a bit about dribbling drippy spouts, especially with Junzo Maekawa‘s kyusu. It’s annoyingly to see a drop of pure gold dribble away down the underside of a spout
.Victoria,Victoria wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:11 pmI have two interesting very wabi-sabi, highly textured and tactile pieces by a mystery artist named Nijuboshi who lives (or lived) in France. Another French tea aficionado bought some of his ceramics a few years ago but now says he doesn’t have any news about him. I bought two pieces from him, a chawan and a tea caddie. According to to the guy I bought these from “Nijuboshi lived in France and built a tiny wood fire kiln in his garden. He brought clay from his walks in the mountain of the Alpes de Haute Provence, 'just enough to make one bowl or two each time’. He put the clay in his pockets and made the bowl back home. He is a very mystical person, secret and mysterious.“
I wonder if he is around the village of Moustiers Sainte-Marie, famous for it's ceramics. Not only the remarkable location, but I imagine it is possible to gather clay from the surrounding mountains.
Your pieces are very stunning. How is the feel of them in use?
@Bok so far I’ve quickly tasted two Duchek’s pots, the rye one with maocha from the last essence of tea club and it was incredible. I was brewing that particular tea in a porcelain and chaozhou gaiwan before and really noticed the pleasant difference this time around. Next I tried the cracking glaze pot. I brewed hongcha in it and it was terrible. I picked the pot because of its (at least for now) glazed interior but the tea came out flat, bitter and far from the smooth, creamy experience I had with the same tea in a chaozhou pot. I saw those cracking glaze Duchek’s pots in use with dong dings so will need to try that out. This is it for now.
@rdl thank you. The clay may very well be from there, nice to have this extra information. So far I’m only using the tea caddy and I really like touching it. It has a very nice textural quality and form. The chawan I’m just admiring at the momentrdl wrote: ↑Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:08 amVictoria,Victoria wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2019 4:11 pmI have two interesting very wabi-sabi, highly textured and tactile pieces by a mystery artist named Nijuboshi who lives (or lived) in France. Another French tea aficionado bought some of his ceramics a few years ago but now says he doesn’t have any news about him. I bought two pieces from him, a chawan and a tea caddie. According to to the guy I bought these from “Nijuboshi lived in France and built a tiny wood fire kiln in his garden. He brought clay from his walks in the mountain of the Alpes de Haute Provence, 'just enough to make one bowl or two each time’. He put the clay in his pockets and made the bowl back home. He is a very mystical person, secret and mysterious.“
I wonder if he is around the village of Moustiers Sainte-Marie, famous for it's ceramics. Not only the remarkable location, but I imagine it is possible to gather clay from the surrounding mountains.
Your pieces are very stunning. How is the feel of them in use?
Did you find good use for them?
Firstly I suspected the water as I used filtered (waterlogic hybrid) when brewing in cracking glaze pot and not bottled as I did with chaozhou pot. That is why I tried brewing with filtered water in chaozhou pot too and it was just that much better. Hopefully will have more time to experiment further during the weekend.