Bronze Pottery Coffee Pot by Jim Etzkorn:

While travelling in Japan in 1987 I partook in a variety of cultural activities. One of these was the Tea ceremony which uses a variety of utensils. A cast iron tea kettle caught my attention. This simple spherical object reflected similar properties of the Shang bronzes but was stated in an entirely different way. The complete form was embellished by a raised surface of small bumps that employed pattern to stimulate visually and tactilely. Rope cording, where a small piece of rope is rolled across the surface of the clay to create reoccurring pattern, is a technique that I use. This was stimulated by the Neolithic Jomon culture of Japan who used rope cording and incising to delineate their surface design.

Height 8 inches. Foodsafe.

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