Japanese Pottery Glossary
Hotarude: Rice-Grain Porcelain That Glows When ...
Hotarude is a technique in which small holes are cut through a porcelain body, filled with clear glaze, and fired. What was a hole comes out of the kiln as...
Hotarude: Rice-Grain Porcelain That Glows When ...
Hotarude is a technique in which small holes are cut through a porcelain body, filled with clear glaze, and fired. What was a hole comes out of the kiln as...
Kakiemon: Milk-White Porcelain and the Art of E...
Kakiemon is a style defined by the parts that are left unpainted. On a soft milk-white ground called nigoshide, birds and flowers are set into one corner using only red,...
Kakiemon: Milk-White Porcelain and the Art of E...
Kakiemon is a style defined by the parts that are left unpainted. On a soft milk-white ground called nigoshide, birds and flowers are set into one corner using only red,...
Japanese Stoneware: Born From Clay, Grown Throu...
Stoneware is pottery made from clay dug out of the ground. Fired at 1,100–1,250°C, the body never fully vitrifies, so pores stay inside it and it drinks water. Flick it...
Japanese Stoneware: Born From Clay, Grown Throu...
Stoneware is pottery made from clay dug out of the ground. Fired at 1,100–1,250°C, the body never fully vitrifies, so pores stay inside it and it drinks water. Flick it...
Japanese Porcelain: Made from Stone, Not Clay
Japanese porcelain is made by crushing stone, not by digging clay. Fired at around 1,300C, porcelain stone turns glassy all the way through: flick it and it rings clear, hold...
Japanese Porcelain: Made from Stone, Not Clay
Japanese porcelain is made by crushing stone, not by digging clay. Fired at around 1,300C, porcelain stone turns glassy all the way through: flick it and it rings clear, hold...
What Is Somenishiki | Enamel Color Over Blue Un...
Somenishiki is a technique in which the skeleton of a design is drawn in cobalt sometsuke on porcelain, then finished with red, green and other overglaze enamels laid on top....
What Is Somenishiki | Enamel Color Over Blue Un...
Somenishiki is a technique in which the skeleton of a design is drawn in cobalt sometsuke on porcelain, then finished with red, green and other overglaze enamels laid on top....
Kinrande: Gold Fired Over Red Overglaze Enamel
Kinrande is the technique of firing gold onto a piece already decorated with akae or other overglaze enamels. The name comes from kinran, the gold-threaded silk brocade it was likened...
Kinrande: Gold Fired Over Red Overglaze Enamel
Kinrande is the technique of firing gold onto a piece already decorated with akae or other overglaze enamels. The name comes from kinran, the gold-threaded silk brocade it was likened...