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china painting in leveland

updated mon 14 mar 05

 

clennell on thu 10 mar 05


Sour Cherry Pottery

> Tony, if you want to see the complete opposite end of the spectrum in
> ceramic work from yours, check out the World Organization of China painters
> Museum in OK City while you're there. You'll probably hate every single
> piece in it, but I'd bet that, with all your experience in clay, you
> couldn't reproduce one of those pieces to save your life!
> Paul Lewing, Seattle


Paul: You bet i'm going to visit it. Inspiration for form is often under the
layers of decoration. i might take my Yi dynasty chawan ( common Korean
rice bowl) with the loose hakeme slip decoration and show the powers at be
that if they would just loosen up with some soju and use a good ole
stoneware body they too could ask $10,000- US for a rice bowl.
Continueing the porcelain thread it seems contemporary porcelain around my
part of Ontario fetches a bigger dollar than does stoneware. I wonder if
over the long haul the stoneware pushes ahead. Was the most expensive Asian
pot sold- porcelain? I think Lee posted something about that pot.
Cheers,
Tony

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Paul Lewing on fri 11 mar 05


on 3/10/05 6:31 PM, clennell at clennell@SYMPATICO.CA wrote:

> You bet i'm going to visit it. Inspiration for form is often under the
> layers of decoration. i might take my Yi dynasty chawan ( common Korean
> rice bowl) with the loose hakeme slip decoration and show the powers at be
> that if they would just loosen up with some soju and use a good ole
> stoneware body they too could ask $10,000- US for a rice bowl.

Hey, Shoji Hamada used to do china painting on his stoneware. Not quite
like they do it at that museum, though.
Paul Lewing, Seattle

Hank Murrow on sat 12 mar 05


On Mar 12, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Paul Lewing wrote:

> on 3/12/05 3:55 AM, Hank Murrow at hmurrow@EFN.ORG wrote:
>
>>> Hey, Shoji Hamada used to do china painting on his stoneware. Not
>>> quite
>>> like they do it at that museum, though.
>>
>> Though he only did that when he wintered in Okinawa.

> That's not true. He built an enamel kiln at his place in Mashiko and
> did it
> here, too.
> Paul Lewing, Seattle

Thanks for the corrective, Paul. At the time I knew him (mid sixties)
he was only doing it in Okinawa. At least that is what he said at the
time.

Cheers, Hank
www.murrow.biz/hank

Hank Murrow on sat 12 mar 05


On Mar 11, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Paul Lewing wrote:
>
> Hey, Shoji Hamada used to do china painting on his stoneware. Not
> quite
> like they do it at that museum, though.

Though he only did that when he wintered in Okinawa......... maybe the
palm trees gave him courage!

Cheers, Hank, now in Balto
www.murrow.biz/hank

Paul Lewing on sat 12 mar 05


on 3/12/05 3:55 AM, Hank Murrow at hmurrow@EFN.ORG wrote:

>> Hey, Shoji Hamada used to do china painting on his stoneware. Not
>> quite
>> like they do it at that museum, though.
>
> Though he only did that when he wintered in Okinawa.
That's not true. He built an enamel kiln at his place in Mashiko and did it
here, too.
Paul Lewing, Seattle