W140xD10xH150mm, China
These are two Chinese words, 发福, made into calligraphy pottery sculpture. It is interesting how the 2 dimensional words is transformed into 3D with the expressive action of the brush strokes.
The words 发福 originally meant the blossoming of fortune, a blessing that can be related to 发财 the blossoming of money, as in KUNG HEI “FAT CHOI”. Nowadays, the words 发福 refers to the putting on weight during the middle age. A tease in disguise of a blessing.
DIA90xH170mm, Hong Kong
For the Something Old Something New joint event, a bottle with lid in real gold and blue barium glaze finish (not food safe). Wheel thrown in one piece, lid is then cut from the body. Gold is applied after the stoneware firing, refire to a lower temperature of 750 C.
This dream like bottle made me think of Calvino’s Invisible City.
DIA100xH140mm, Hong Kong
The joint venture with Soil and Cobo is still on till the end of the month, if you are interested in contemporary pottery come and take a look!
For me, these candle shades are like a father and son having a conversation with each other.
These candle shades are unglazed white stoneware, wheel thrown and then distorted, they are then carefully hand carved to get the openings for light.
H140xW50xD50mm, Hong Kong
Something Old Something New, a pair of spoons (head) double as tamper (base) for making expresso.
The figurines are of course the famous Spike … & I. For more of Spike, visit his blog at
spiketang.wordpress.com
H90xD50xW30, China
Two two lion with pup figurines are in fact bottles for medicine. The traditional Chinese medicine apart from the bitten tea, also comes in small pills and powder form. Judging by the size of the opening they would have been used to hold medicinal powder. Personally I find the powder form to be quite nasty, they tend to stick to your throat and the unpleasant taste lingered on for ages. I suppose these sweet looking bottles will help the patients take the medicine.
Here is the modern way of what thoughtful doctors do …
DIA75xH35, China
A modern day Jun ware cup. Jun ware is a type of celadon which dated back to the Tang dynasty and its popularity goes from the Sung dynasty all the way to the Qing dynasty. Its typical glaze has a spectrum of colour; rose purple, begonia red, aubergine purple, rooster blood red, grape purple, cinnabar red, spring onion green. Within these colours, there is a complexity of colours within.
DIA50-120xH35-65mm, China
This series of 10 cups make a good set of sake cups for dinner party. Depending on their drinking ability, guests can pick the size of their own cups and the host can refill all their cups at the same time!
The cups are so precisely made that they can be nested into one and other like the Russian Matryoshka dolls, making storage much easier.
W120xL190xH140mm, China
For the Chinese, the use of a bed pan is not confined for the bed ridden but for the privileged men who are too lazy to get out of men. In old China, the bed is the only place where heating is supplied and leaving once warm bed to the freezing world is not at all desirable and so the idea of a bedpan appeared. For the wealthy, the bedpan are made of gold or silver, copper for the well to do, porcelain for middle class and pottery like this one for the commoners. The metal ones are often insulated with a small duvet, it will defeat the purpose of not getting out of bed if you ended up touching something cold. Apparently President Yuan Shi Kai’s bedpan was made of lead, as it is not as noisy to wake himself up.
W100xD80xH200mm, China
This is a figurine is that of the God of Longevity, he is holding a longevity peach that just one bite of it will make one immortal.
Click here to see the god of longevity’s relation with astronomy,
history and
his cane.
Kung Kee Kung Kee!
If you still havent seen the pottery from Cobo Ceramic Workshop, come and take a look!
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