Steve Slatin on sun 6 mar 05
John --
The Freer is a great resource, and you don't have to
show proof of an MFA at the door to get access to
resources. As I recall (this is going back 20 years
or so) what you do need to do is have a specific thing
in mind you want to look at, and specify it to them in
real detail, in writing and in advance and be definite
what you want to see of it (that is, if you want to
see feet from 18th Cent. Chien Lung export ware
inkwells, you have to ask for that specifically,
because otherwise when you arrive they will have the
Chien Lung inkwells, but they will all be right side
up, and you are not permitted to touch the goods).
In bygone times, when you arrived you had to check in
at the front desk and if you were on the list to see
stuff that day (don't be late!) they'd call up someone
who'd escort you down to a windowless room in the
basement somewhere and your precious inkwells would be
there, standing on their heads, exposing their feet.
I drew my notes; I can't remember if photography was
not permitted or if I just didn't think to bring a
camera that day.
-- Steve Slatin
--- John Britt wrote:
> You can go up the the Freer, with a prior
> reservation, and pick up samples
Steve Slatin -- Don't Ever Antagonize The Horn
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mel jacobson on sun 6 mar 05
i have placed a new pix on my index page.
top left.
i took out six yellow pieces today. very thrilling.
i have combined white temmoku under, red temmoku edges
to run into the yellow temmoku. the pix says it all.
rich mahaffey has given me some very good clues
for the iron project. his opinion on most things are
valued a great deal.
last summer he told me a story in a private email of
a friend, roaming china, and he saw a very old sagger,
i think, in an irrigation ditch. at the bottom was a
very old black hare's fur bowl, frozen into the bottom...had been
there for a thousand years. amazing.
and there are people that say...`the chinese did not use saggers`.
god, there are some really silly people speaking at nceca on
occasion. i have heard far too many. from my study, you can
see pix of hundreds of old saggers stacked at kiln sites all over
china. some very, very old. many have been dug up at old
waster sites.
phil:
many of the pots that i am going to ship are fifteen/ twenty pounders...about
a hundred. some 18 inches across. to ship those ups would cost
me a great deal more than a thousand dollars...but i appreciate your
thinking about the project. i have sent joe at least 40 pots that way.
double boxed, teabowls, bubble..still lost 5 of them. i send joe 5-8
pots from every firing...pick out gems. they are half his, so he has to
see what we are doing. pix tell only so much. for so many of these pots
you have to hold them in the sun.
mel
mel jacobson/minnetonka/minnesota/usa
http://www.pclink.com/melpots
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pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on sun 6 mar 05
Hi Mel,
Oh!
I thought you were interested in shipping 400 of the happy
little Bowls...!
Ahhhhh...26 Pounders are indeed a whole nother matter...
One possibility, is...finding contacts amid good-guy ong
haul Truckers...
I have one such contact, but I have not used it in a
while...if I can find him, there may be possibilities.
He hauled a 250 lb, four Burner one Oven, on it's "legs", no
pallet, mid 1920s Gas Stove for me, from Tennessee to
Kingman Arizona, where I met him and loaded it into my
Van...for $50.00
If you had your stuff 'Forklift-Palleted" and shrink wrapped
and so on on a pallet...and knew the right people, you could
get it to SoCal ( was it?) for a song...
I will call him and find out how far 'North' he goes...or if
he has any trusted buddies who go up your way...otherwise,
far as I knew, he were a Southern Route fellow...Coast to
Coast...
If anything sounds promising, I will send you his number and
pave the way...
Phil
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----- Original Message -----
From: "mel jacobson"
<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>
> phil:
> many of the pots that i am going to ship are fifteen/
twenty pounders...about
> a hundred. some 18 inches across. to ship those ups
would cost
> me a great deal more than a thousand dollars...but i
appreciate your
> thinking about the project. i have sent joe at least 40
pots that way.
> double boxed, teabowls, bubble..still lost 5 of them. i
send joe 5-8
> pots from every firing...pick out gems. they are half
his, so he has to
> see what we are doing. pix tell only so much. for so
many of these pots
> you have to hold them in the sun.
> mel
John Britt on sun 6 mar 05
You can go up the the Freer, with a prior reservation, and pick up samples
of the saggars with the pots still in them, as well as many other amazing
samples. It is a teaching library. Might be a good reason to stay an
extra day before or after NCECA. Head to Washington D.C.
It was amazing,
John Britt
www.johnbrittpottery.com
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