Tea bowls or cups?

When is it a tea bowl?
When is it a cup?

I have no training in making tea bowls...so of course I defer to masters with many years of that heritage...which I believe is sacred to certain potters.

So without any mistique, I've thrown some slightly imperfect, losely decorated white clay cups.  The decoration was just cobalt carbonate stain, painted onto the leather hard greenware.

And one of the goals was to make indents in the sides where fingers/thumbs could get a better grasp on the cup.

I made 10 of these, which will be mix or match at pretty reasonable prices.

And then there was the second tea jar with cork lid.

The orange glaze (over white clay) is imperfections in the bottom of a tub of glaze.  It's gone now, so you might say this is one of a kind.  (You also might say each of my works is!)

More pots Meow

Shoot, blogger is now adding photos backwards, which it did several years ago when I first started blogging.

So here goes nothing...  yep this was to be the final picture, and here it is up at the top.  (Actually you may have seen a few of these pics before)

Breakfast was sooo good, and now I must clean off every bit of me!

However, that bird (squirrel?) might need my attention too!

A simple Tea Canister, with a nice fitting cork lid.

I really like these 2 big bowls with the drippy blue glaze inside and out.  Not in any hurry to sell them.

When is a rose not really a rose?

And when is a bottle not simply a bottle?

And a vase that was created several weeks ago looks like it might be ancient...

OK this is where I started, with the puss wearing the tiarra.  And I think the blogger problem is just when I try to add captions within the photo.  If I just avoid that function, perhaps I can insert them wherever I wish.  (Incidentally the green stain was actually copper carbonate, and the brown is red iron oxide, covered with some clear glaze).  The next time I tried to get either of these results, the RIO washed out completely.

More tomorrow!