Think of that when you see a tea bowl.’’ With this notion ... author of several books on the Japanese ceramic technique known as raku. And Branfman was further honored when Smedts invited ...

Raku tea bowls occupy a unique space in the world ... In this sense, Raku bowls are the polar opposite of Chinese celadons and porcelain, which permit no distortion of form or glazing irregularities.

But the most important of these was the tea bowl. These glazed, ceramic vessels were simple in shape and tended to be between two and three inches in height. By the 1500s, powdered and whipped tea ...

Around 1960, Paul Soldner (1921–2011) and other American ceramic artists began working ... Raku ware is showcased in “The Cosmos in a Tea Bowl: Transmitting a Secret Art Across Generations ...

Its ceramic slopes were caressed by generations ... whisking the chartreuse-colored grains into a bowl filled with hot water. Tea men reveled in the ceremony’s myriad facets: the frothy green ...

Ancient Chinese tea bowls might hold the recipe for a rare ... a group of researchers announced this week. Jian ceramic wares were created in China's Fujian Province during the Song dynasty ...