#Pottery: reddish-brown ware

[random-art-objects]

Kohl jar

ca. 2030–1640 B.C.

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[mia-japanese-korean]

Platter, Kimura Morikazu, 1994, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

silver metallic glaze on underside and rim of top side; central glaze on top is black, silver and copper with swirls and circular drops; glazed echizen stoneware 'temmoku' Although Kimura Morikazu now lives in the traditional pottery production area of Echizen, he hails from a pottery-making family in Kyoto. Rather than follow his father's manner of producing Kyoto ware with colorful overglaze enamel decoration on earthenware, he decided to become a specialist in Chinese-style iron-glazed stoneware known as temmoku. Temmoku is produced by firing vessels coated with an iron oxide-rich glaze in a reduction atmosphere (oxygen deprived). Typical temmoku is characterized by reddish-brown streaks against a purple-black background. A rare variation occurs when the glaze contains an overload of iron oxide and is allowed to cool slowly, producing crystals or iridescent "oil spots" on the surface of the glaze. This large platter is a spectacular example of this technique. Size: 1 1/2 x 17 in. (3.81 x 43.18 cm) Medium: Stoneware with temmoku "oilspot" glaze

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4845/

[ammg-old]

Fragments or 'sherds' of ceramics are often the most durable traces left by a civilization, offering our best window on the values of those who used them.  Archaeologists therefore like to name people after the pots they left behind.  There are the Beaker Folk of the 3rd millennium BC, who travelled across Europe, from the Spanish Peninsula and central Germany, reaching Britain around 2000 BC.  They came after the Funnel Beaker Culture and the Corded Ware People.  Wherever they went, the Beaker Folk left traces of reddish-brown, bell-shaped clay drinking vessels.  They could have been named the Flint Dagger people or the Stone Hammer People (since they also used these) but somehow pottery is more evocative of a whole culture.  We know that the Beaker Folk liked to be buried with a beaker at their feet, presumably for the food and drink they would need in the afterlife.  Our own culture has so much stuff that pottery has lost much of its former importance, but it is still one of the few universal possessions.  Perhaps many hundreds of years from now, when our culture has been buried by some apocalypse or other, archaeologists will start to dig up our remains and name us the Mug Community...we were a people who liked our ceramics to be brightly-coloured, large enough to accommodate high values of comforting caffeinated drinks and, above all, dishwasher-proof.

“Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen”

[americangirlinwales]

Bizen Ware Keshiki

Japanese Bizen ware Tea kettle. It is Reddish Green Brown pottery covered with a light brown and Ash glaze. With the potters mark.

Bizen; Keshiki, or in English view/landscape, refers to the different effects that form on the surface of Bizen ceramics during the firing in the kiln. This tea pot is one of the most common Keshiki to look out for, but Hi-Iro, pictured above; I think is one of the…