DIA80xH130mm, Hong Kong
This series of black goblets, by Jessie Cheung, are full of energy and spirit. These animated goblets seem to be teasing one to take a sip from it.
Unique items for small dinner parties.
The goblets are created by throwing with a hand build sculptural attachment. Its matte black slip glaze contains high percentage of manganese dioxide, copper oxide , iron oxide and copper oxide, giving an intense blackness, the sculptural part is made by slip casting.
DIA90xH90mm, Hong Kong
This round bottle is made by Chris Lo, founder of the Cobo Ceramic Workshop.
The clay body uses a groggy clay which can stand for the thermo shock created during the raku post reduction firing. The matte black carbonized surfaces and black crackles are the main characteristic of raku firing. The round shape gives a stable and strong body structure to avoid cracking.
Raku was started in Japan by Chojiro in the 16th century; unlike other type of pottery firing where they are loaded into a cold kiln with temperature rinsing slowly, taking anywhere from 8-24 hrs or longer, when the designated temperature is reached the heating is turned off and the contents allow to naturally cool down until they can be removed with bare hands. With raku, the pottery are loaded into a hot kiln where the desired temperature is reached in a much short time, can be as short as 15 mins). The pottery is then removed from the hot kiln with the aids of tongs and put into a container of combustible material (sawdust, leaves, etc) to be smoked, the surface is carbonized reacting with the glaze and the clay giving the unique matt black unglazed clay and crackled glazed surfaces.
DIA90xH100mm, Hong Kong
For the “Throw A Party” event, ceramic artist King Fung, instructor of the Cobo Ceramic Workshop, has created for the event a series of song mugs. A song singing glazed stoneware which interact with the user.
Stoneware glazed, body and handle are made by throwing and joined together after trimming. A small clay ball was put inside the hollow handle to give it a ring.
Continuing with the Something Old Something New theme and our collaboration with Soil, we now have another venture:
Cobo X Soil X Mountain Folkcraft
“Throw A Party!”
A selection of pottery works produced from the studio (Chris, King + the students) will be available at Mountain Folkcraft. All the works are handmade and unique.
Cobo Ceramic Workshop is a pottery workshop founded in 1995 by Chris Lo, together with King Fung regular classes are held as well as commissioned work for corporation and individual clients.
This is the workshop I attend my classes and personally I think it is the perfect place to learn pottery, love it!
H100xL100xW60mm, Hong Kong (NOT FOR SALE)
For our dog Spike’s birthday we have on the blog a pottery I made of him having his nail trimmed. Some of you might have seen the little fellow running about in the shop. For those who are spike or sealyham terrier fans, here is his blog:
http://spiketang.wordpress.com/
DIA150mm, China
This item selected by Furze for the Something Old Something New exhibition and is available at both Mountain Folkcraft and Soil.
There is something non-Chinese about this plate, I thought. Looking up exports chinaware, it is no where to be found. Perhaps its the shape of the plate, I thought. Then I was surprised to find out, thought not a common form, the shape has been around since the Sung dynasty. Chinaware, blue and white, a common Chinese theme of flower and bird, a form that goes back 1000 years it seems that there should be nothing none Chinese about it. On further research, it seems that the form of certain pottery and metal ware were heavily influenced by the import of Persian silverware in the Tang dynasty, the polylobed shape is one of them.
Ming dynasty pottery polylobed dish
Tang dynasty polylobed silver court wine cup, Nanjing Museum
Persian silver polylobed cup of the 11th Century
DIA75xH40mm, China
This is a small pottery wine cup, its small size is suitable for drinking games where one would bottoms up quite frequently.
Here is a traditional Chinese drinking game;
The Slap 7 Game
A group of drinkers in sitting in a circle, each counting a number from 1 to 99, the first person will say 1 and the second 2 and so on. On the number that contain the number 7 or the multiple of 7 (e.g. 7, 14, 17, 21, etc), the person saying it till has to slap someone else’s head. The person who got it wrong will have to drink up. Sound simple, wait till you have a few cups of Chinese wine.
Here are a couple more items on drinks; Porcelain Wine Flask, Money God , The Wine God,
This item selected by Furze for the Something Old Something New exhibition and is available at both Mountain Folkcraft and Soil.
DIA100xH40mm, China
This miniature silver kettle was selected by Furze for the Something Old Something New exhibition and is available at both Mountain Folkcraft and Soil.
This is the base of a small pottery mortar which would have been used for grinding Chinese herbal medicine, now it can be used for grinding marination rubs, for making pesto, for grinding sesome. Check out our other mortars; mortar, medicine grinder.
DIA100xH140mm, China
The oil lamp has been a form of lighting since the Warring State period (400BC), with its long history the design explored into many different forms and materials, by the Ming and Qing dynasty they are as common as today’s light bulb. Lamps for the court and the wealthy tend to be decorative, the one used by the folks are more functional based (see our previous entries; oil lamp, pewter oil lamp, oil lamp shades). They remained as a form of lighting till the arrival of the gas lamp from the west and of course electricity, my parents still remember the days when they are reading under the light of an oil lamp when they were a child.
This item selected by Furze for the Something Old Something New exhibition and is available at both Mountain Folkcraft and Soil.
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