Wood-Fired Shard-Mouth Tea Bowl

**Crafted by Ceramic Artist Wang Chung-Hsin** A purely hand-pinched wood-fired shard-mouth tea bowl, with elegantly delicate lines. The traces of the maker are left on the pottery. With aesthetic appreciation, life experience, and the involvement of tea practitioners, the work is finally completed and nurtured through the hands of collectors. **A Perfect Interpretation of Wabi-Sabi Aesthetics** Wabi-sabi is the beauty of the imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of prudence and humility, and also a beauty of spontaneity that does not follow convention. - Leonard Koren https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4815/31216576347_2c58846d37_b.jpg Wood-fired ceramics are, in both use and appearance, rustic and warm. The beauty pursued lies in the natural, simple, and substantial. The completion of a piece of wood-fired pottery relies heavily on the maker's physical strength in pottery making and kiln firing, professional knowledge, adaptability, and aesthetic sensibility. **Creating an identical piece is an impossible mission.** https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4824/45243548915_59cf41c8d6_b.jpg Controlling a wood-fired kiln is far more complex than an electric kiln. Factors to consider during firing may include: Climate, firing schedule design, kiln packing arrangement, flame control, wood thickness, dryness, rate of temperature increase, the interplay of wood and air supply, the use and removal of carbon deposits, wood-feeding techniques, and adapting to the kiln's characteristics to achieve the desired artistic effect. https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4867/44338837570_552671a4b3_b.jpg **Handmade and fired in a wood kiln.** **The surface cannot be absolutely perfect.** **Those with perfectionist tendencies, please refrain from ordering.** **Thank you for your understanding.** **Material** Ceramics. Each batch of clay is personally blended using raw ores. All products are exported and have passed import quality inspections. Non-toxic, non-polluting, and in harmony with environmental sustainability. **Origin/Manufacturing Method** Taiwan / Handmade