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A deeper but less wide pot this time.

Grant

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Hello Grant, It is amazing the difference a pot makes. Can you give some details about the potter? I have seen this glaze come up a lot lately, is there more than one Tokoname kiln using it?

Cheers,
Symon

Beautiful tree.

is the first branch placed at the back? Or is it an illusion with the photo?

What a tree!

Love the progression and the constant pot changes keeps things interesting.

delisea wrote:Hello Grant, It is amazing the difference a pot makes. Can you give some details about the potter? I have seen this glaze come up a lot lately, is there more than one Tokoname kiln using it?

Cheers,
Symon

Looks like a Koyo Oribe glazed pot. They are well known for that particular glaze - its one of my favourites

Daluke wrote:Beautiful tree.

is the first branch placed at the back? Or is it an illusion with the photo?

Yes, the lowest branch is a back branch. I will leave it for 10 or 20 years and if I don't like it I can always cut it off.

In the meantime .......

Grant

delisea wrote:Hello Grant, It is amazing the difference a pot makes. Can you give some details about the potter? I have seen this glaze come up a lot lately, is there more than one Tokoname kiln using it?

Cheers,
Symon

The kiln is Kouyou kiln in Tokoname and their pots are different to the other kilns. Unusually it is a very white or pale clay, the pots are heavier and thicker than other Tokoname pots and the glazes are just amazing.

I ordered many of these particular pots in various sizes but they took a long time to make; about 6 months; because the potter was not quite satisfied with one or two of the pots and then would do another couple a month later as they only fire once a month.

This particular pot was an even more "special,glaze" that I took to fill out the order. Most of the other pots have sold already so I decided to keep this one for myself.

The glazes this kiln does are truly fabulous. So deep but translucent in some cases or mottled like this one.

Grant

Grant Bowie wrote:Yes, the lowest branch is a back branch. I will leave it for 10 or 20 years and if I don't like it Imcan always cut it off.

In the meantime .......

10 or twenty years will go just that (snapping fingers emoticon) Love the setting Grant a credit to you.

bodhidharma wrote:

Grant Bowie wrote:Yes, the lowest branch is a back branch. I will leave it for 10 or 20 years and if I don't like it Imcan always cut it off.

In the meantime .......

10 or twenty years will go just that (snapping fingers emoticon) Love the setting Grant a credit to you.

You aren't kidding. Just the other day it seemed like it was just a cutting!

Grant

Thanks for sharing Grant.
Love the Nebari on this one - a real feature of your tree!

Awesome tree, awesome pot.... put 'em together .... Seriously awesome!!!

Thanks for the pot info Grant, Kouyo make lovely pots. I have tried to order a smaller version of this exact pot and they are always out of oribe (green) - now I know that it is Grant and Jase H who have been cleaning them out. I have one in 'Brown Namako' coming over the boat I hope it is as half as nice.

I love the glaze, but in a bonsai pot it has always seemed a bit too strong. With this tree, the texture of the pot matches the texture of the trunk and the density of the ramification very well - it takes a powerful tree to balance the pot, and vice versa.

From my dim dark pottery past, I think that this would be a copper crystalline glaze - these are famously tricky, with a very narrow firing range for temperature. Lots of failures, and not something you churn out in quantity. Something to treasure.

Gavin

delisea wrote:Thanks for the pot info Grant, Kouyo make lovely pots. I have tried to order a smaller version of this exact pot and they are always out of oribe (green) - now I know that it is Grant and Jase H who have been cleaning them out. I have one in 'Brown Namako' coming over the boat I hope it is as half as nice.

I do have some small ones in stock but all the big and medium deep oval have sold.

Grant