Gudrun Paysen
- Keramik in japanischer Tradition

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Tea bowls

The clay from which I make the tea bowls (matcha bowls) is mainly sourced from Hagi, the important pottery town in the Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi. It is a light and very fine porcelain-like clay that has been extracted from the clay pits around Hagi since 1717. The clay variety called daidō tsuchi is mixed with the two varieties mitake-tsuchi and mishima-tsuchi. In this way, the Hagi shade achieves its special colour and structure variance and takes on a cream-coloured to slightly reddish colouring after the reducing firing.
As a glaze for the tea bowls, I almost exclusively use ash glazes. 

The result is tea bowls with beautiful crackle patterns (嵌入, kannyū), which were created during firing due to the tension differences between glaze and shards. With the use of the bowl for tea or coffee preparation, the tea bowl "matures". Since tannin components become fixed in the crackle pattern through use, this gradually becomes even more apparent.
The tea bowls have a capacity of approx. 350 ml. The diameter of the bowls is on average 12 cm, the height 8 to 9 cm.

Order

The tea bowls (matcha bowls) shown below are all available and can be purchased at a price of € 50.00 per bowl. Shipping cost within Europe is € 10,00. If you are not satisfied, a return is possible within 14 days. However, the costs for the return must then be paid by the sender.


Teeschale 50
Teeschale 50
teeschale 50-2
teeschale 50-2

 

 

bowl 1: stoneware clay, glaze: vine ash with iron oxide
bowl 2: stoneware clay, glaze: Warabai (rice husk ash)


bowl 3: stoneware clay. Glaze: Gingoko with transparent glaze




bowl 4: stoneware clay. Glaze: Gingoko with transparent glaze
bowl 5: stoneware clay, glaze: vine ash with iron oxide


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All my works are made of stoneware clay and are fired in a gas kiln at a temperature of 1280 degrees. Occasionally I also use my electric oven, especially when a reducing effect on the glaze is not desired.


In addition, I sometimes burn vessels in a capsule that is filled with flammable material such as charcoal or sawdust. The smoke development inside the capsule leaves an interesting surface on the vessels.


White, gray and red stoneware clays from Germany as well as two stoneware clays from Japan, AKASHIGARAKI, a reddish-brown burning stoneware clay from Shiga Prefecture in central Honshu, and HAGI, a cream-colored fine porcelain-like clay from Yamaguchi Prefecture in the far southwest of Honshu, are processed.


The SHIGARAKI stoneware clay is relatively coarse and is very suitable for larger vessels. Blue and green glazes look especially beautiful on this clay because the iron inclusions in the clay can be seen through the glaze. But the red-brown clay color of SHIGARAKI is also very beautiful unglazed


The HAGI clay is very fine and is used in Japan mainly for tea bowls and vessels for the tea ceremony. During firing, the clay becomes cream-coloured to reddish. Glazes made of ashes look especially good on the HAGI clay.


The vessels shown here are often glazed with ash glazes. Glazes can be made from many types of wood and plants. Interesting glazes are obtained from wood ash, the ashes of vines, ashes from leaves of various trees such as walnut or chestnut trees, or from grain or rice husks. I get some ashes such as the rice husk ash Warabai or a certain wood ash Izubai from Japan. Other ashes such as walnut leaf ash, chestnut leaf ash and vine ash are collected and made by myself, friends and relatives.
DOBAI is a glaze made of wood ash, which can be dull yellow to shiny green depending on the type of tree or the part of the tree - trunk, branches, twigs - its location and the atmosphere in the oven.


WARABAI is an ash made from rice husks. Depending on the thickness of the application, the glaze appears transparent on the vessel, greenish to slightly blue to matt white.
These base glazes can be colored by adding oxides. The addition of 5-10% iron oxide produces glazes such as IRAHO; KAKI; TEMMOKU, which are characterized by an ochre-yellow to rust-red to brown-black color.


The green-blue glazes such as TAKATORI; SORA-TAKATORI and SELADON are also ash-based.
Reducing firing is essential for these glaze paints; i.e. a process in which the air supply is reduced from a certain firing temperature.

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