Hilary McClure on mon 28 aug 00
Dear CLAYARTists,
Wondering if anyone has tried to duplicate a Tang chun glaze, or if anyone
has any ideas as to what to try. It's rather different from a Sung chun.
There is a picture on page 99 of Beurdeley's "Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese
Ceramics". It is described in the text as a blackish glaze, and as a "brown
or brownish-green temmoku-type glaze, with cloudy splashes of white and
lavender blue". The picture looks like a satiny brown-black with runny,
frothy white splashes like sea-foam on top of the black glaze, running down,
with the black showing through in a fine texture, and subtle bluish streaks
mixing into the white. I don't see any green. Maybe the blue is reduced iron
getting picked up from the black glaze and mixing into the white, less
saturated.
Thanks for any advice. Have you ever even heard of Tang chun? I'll let you
all know if I come up with anything, though it's going to be a little while
since I have to build a kiln first!
Hilary McClure
Danville, Vermont
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