Custom Tea Cup Collection

[liralen]

jonsinger had a long-time request in to me to take pictures of his really early attempts at tea cups back in the late 80's as I commissioned, back then, a set of rough and ready Asian-style teaware. He's gotten a lot better at it since, but he wanted to see pictures of his first, baby steps... so I finally got pictures today and have loaded 'em up on Flickr. These little guys have really helped make my tea obsession all that more pleasurable.



I'll start with the early stuff and move onto the more recent stuff...



I love the glaze work on this little guy... and the next pic is the same one right side up.



Then Pink! of the same generation...

You can see I've used it from the tea stains in the crackle glaze...




First of the taller ones, but the green always gets me.


I love that the same glaze shows up differently on the inside than on the outside. This is later work by a bit, as the shape is more traditional in some ways and smoother.

Another later piece... white with some wonderful textured spots...



This one is now my pride and joy, and I use it a lot when doing old-man Chinese style tea service with my tiny Yixing pots. It's the most recent of my pieces by Jon.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Oh, the lovely!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Though it's really Singer's fault. *grin*

[calmingeffects.livejournal.com]

beautiful!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Wow... what a gorgeous icon!! And thank you! I love them a lot, since they're all unique...

[calmingeffects.livejournal.com]

thank you <<33 its a Zetsuai!!!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yum!

[marith.livejournal.com]

Oh, the *blue* on the first one, and the way it curls up to the bottom edge like a wave!

And those are his baby steps? I'd always heard Jon Singer was pottery god, but wow. Thank you for sharing them.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, baby steps. When he was first starting. The first three, at least, were that. So, yeah, he's a god. *grin*

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

They're so lovely, I really like the last one.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad that you do, it's so warm and smooth and good to hold. *happy sigh*

[flit.livejournal.com]

So beautiful! I love even the baby steps; I could eat that glaze like ice cream. (If it weren't bad for me to eat glaze.)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they are beautiful. And so utterly unique, I love them so much.