While making pots for my last soda firing, I took inspiration from a 600 year old rice wine jar I was lucky enough to acquire on a trip to Yixing, China in 2003. On the left, in the last photo of this listing is the original, which was plowed up in a farmer’s field near Yixing, a city with a 1000+ year history of pottery making. My pieces inspired by it are on the right. On some, I used a white clay slip underneath a wood ash glaze, which is how I think the original was done, and on others I used traditional stoneware glazes such as celadon or tenmoku. The original was made on a foot powered potter's wheel, and fired in a wood-fired “Dragon Kiln”. I tried to get the same feel of the form by making these on my foot powered treadle wheel, although mine were fired with natural gas, and atmospherically glazed with soda. I was very pleased with the results, and am still in awe of the fact that I have an example of artisanry from 15th century China that I can hold in my hands!
- Handthrown in Rockdale, Wisconsin
- Fired to 2350 degrees Fahrenheit
- Soda fired stoneware glaze
- Lead-free, food safe glaze
- Safe for dishwasher and microwave.
- Price Includes UPS or USPS shipping to the Continental USA
