Craig Martell on thu 28 sep 00
Hi:
Shino glazes originated in the Mino area of Japan about 400 yrs ago, not in
China. They were, at that time, the japanese attempt at reproducing
Chinese Porcelains. The glazes were feldspathic white glazes over iron
bearing clays and were somewhat different from the shino glazes that are
the rave here in the western world. The mino potters were not very
concerned with fire color and carbon trap.
The "new world shinos" are discussed in Jim Robinson's article, Revival
Fires-Another Face for Shino, in the Dec 1992 edition of Studio
Potter. These new shinos are derivitives from Virginia Wirt's University
Carbon Trap glaze that was concocted at the Univ of Minnesota around 1974,
I think. Jim gives her credit in his article as the author of this new
family of glazes.
I think there must be a lot of good info on shinos in the archives. It is
disussed on Clayart almost as much as Floating Blue, as unbelieveable as
that may be!
regards, Craig Martell in Oregon
Hank Murrow on thu 28 sep 00
Craig martell wrote;
>The "new world shinos" are discussed in Jim Robinson's article, Revival
>Fires-Another Face for Shino, in the Dec 1992 edition of Studio
>Potter. These new shinos are derivitives from Virginia Wirt's University
>Carbon Trap glaze that was concocted at the Univ of Minnesota around 1974,
>I think. Jim gives her credit in his article as the author of this new
>family of glazes.
Hank replies;
Not to take anything away from Virginia; but a number of potters (including
myself) whose shino glazes were noted in Jim's article were unaware of
Virginia's work until Jim wrote the article. The past and current interest
in Shino glazes has proceeded on a broad front and along several very
different vectors. Look for a huge show at the Babcock Galleries in NY
around Sept 2001 called, "American Shino". I believe the show will show the
variety of approaches as well as the depth.
Cheers, Hank in Eugene
Lee Love on thu 23 jun 05
My friend Tatsuo wrote an interesting post on the origins of Shino on
another list. I put it up here:
http://shinoglaze.blogspot.com/
--
Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
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http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft
About the best pots:
"They are not necessarily amenable to intellectual analysis,
and, in fact, that analysis can destroy a person's real
appreciation and understanding of a piece."
-- Warren MacKenzie
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