Traditional japanese pottery

By the Inaba workshop, Meiji era (late 19th century) Of compressed baluster form set on a slightly splayed foot and worked in silver and polychrome enamels on a midnight blue ground with a flock of cranes in flight, the neck and foot with bands of chrysanthemums on scrolling vines, silvered copper mounts; signed on a plaque Kinunken zo 3 7/8in (9.8cm) high

japanese tea bowl shapes

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The Japanese tea ceremony

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Kintsukuroi - the art of repairing pretty so it is more beautiful for having been broken.

Learn how to carve a sake bottle, known as tokkuri in Japanese, from clay. Kurinuki is the Japanese method of carving pots from a lump of clay and is a great technique for those potters wanting to learn new ways of hand-building with clay.