"Ido-inspired" Chawan

This is one in a series of tea bowls inspired by the aesthetics and construction of traditional Ido-style chawan. Those traditional bowls have fairly well-proscribed traditional guidelines for the profile and features of the bowl, as well as both glazing and firing. This bowl is most certainly not adhering to those guidlines, but it does take some specific inspiration from them. The tapered straight walls of the bowl with throwing finger marks left in tact, the bamboo node foot ring, and the ash glaze are all Ido-inspired. A true Ido bowl would use a lighter clay body, have a highly crazed ash glaze whose color is a pale, yellowish warm brown, and the footring would be glazed and in a manner that the glaze crawls. Despite those differences, I’ve made many of those bowls and enjoy the results.