teabowl

Photo: Private collection Top: The Bartlam teapot showing the underglaze printed design of cranes, palm trees and sampan Bottom: Clare Durham of auctioneers Woolley & Wallis with the Bartlam teapot Three views of the Bartlam teabowl sold at Christie's New York for PS76,000 (Photo Christie's Images) The key to the discovery: shards from a Bartlam teabowl found by archaeologists at Cain Hoy and tested as soft porcelain Photo courtesy of The Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina Teapot-3 The Bartlam teapot showing the underglaze printed

Photo: Private collection Three views of the Bartlam teabowl sold at Christie's New York for PS76,000 (Photo Christie's Images) The key to the discovery: shards from a Bartlam teabowl found by archaeologists at Cain Hoy and tested as soft porcelain Photo courtesy of The Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina

Here he show a conventional chawan (teabowl) form in atypical sizes and colours, as well as sculptural objects without implied function.

Barbara's pretty little jug will not be among them, but the second piece Barry purchased will: a New Hall teabowl and saucer.

For Hein Janssen we feel the same thing, between great simplicity of a teabowl and the large lidded boxes with retractive glaze, the same mastery, same consideration, modernity and tradition made with the same actions.

BODUM'S new Naoko Teabowl combines design and function.

She has been an erratic student of Japanese tea ceremony for many years and has recently written a book for Bloomsbury Publishing titled The Teabowl: East & West.

It is said that with a good teabowl the inside will appear bigger than the outside.

Either way, the teabowl and its contents will be sure to warm a wintry day.

Kemske has recently written a book for Bloomsbury Publishing titled The Teabowl: East & West in which she explores the contemporary tea bowl in Western ceramics as well as its context and history in Japan (www.bonniekemske.com).

The chawan, or Japanese teabowl, is a widely venerated ceramic form, an object with huge appeal among Western artists, collectors and audiences more generally.