Tea Bowls (Chawan) — Marc Lancet: Tea and Ikebana Ceramics

Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Tea bowls are at the heart of the ceremony that invites you to wake to beauty in the present moment. A tea bowl is humble, profound, curative, and a conduit to your appreciation of beauty in this world.

It is a privilege to create a work of art that will be closely examined and so deeply appreciated — an irresistible challenge to meet every time I work the clay and feed the fire.

Natural Ash Glaze Wood-fired Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Oni Shino Wood-fired Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Oribe Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Hiki Dashi Wood-fired Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Contemporary Wood-fired Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Raku Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Oni Temoku Wood-fired Tea Bowls (Chawan)

Under Firebox Wood-fired Tea Bowl (Chawan)

Sculpted Slip Wood-fired Tea Bowl

Flashing Shino Slip Wood-fired Tea Bowl (Chawan)

“‘If you can make a good tea bowl, you can make anything’ is almost an adage in the Japanese ceramic world and there is more than a grain of truth in it. To bring together the lip, the inner surface, the outer profile, and the concluding foot with the right mixture of clay, glaze and fire to produce the elusive balance of utility and grace is not a feat to be taken lightly. To bring them together with a touch of spirituality is magic.”

“The successful bowl will have an inexplicable serenity to its stance as if it knows what it is about.”

- Barry Lancet,from his essay on Japanese artist-potter Shiro Tsujimura

Flower Vases (Hanaire)