Surprise from my kiln

Searching for new bonsai pot surfaces takes a lot of patience. Only one out of a hundred tests might perhaps be good enough to be used for bonsai pots.
With a glaze, it is more simple. Unglazed surfaces are very difficult and it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
There is old African unglazed ceramic with a high-gloss surface and it is still unkown how those ancient potters achieved it.
Despite feverish investigation, whether the clay was polished before the firing process with stones, leather or wood, this surface technique has not been found out so far.
Everything stays an adventure.



This pot was not polished and not glazed in the conventional sense, it has an applied surface. This surface suits white or red flowering or fruit-bearing bonsai very well. It is also very good for delicately styled junipers and white pines.

Best regards
Peter

Wow amazing pot!!!! I love the surface, so perfect

Regards

Andy

I concur with Andy, very nice sheen!

Perhaps I need to do some experimenting with a bit of frit on my leatherhard pieces.....

Thanks for posting here Peter; the lot of us potters look up to you!

Hi Andy,
hi Rob,
thank you, yes you know, make pottery is an adventure for the whole life.

regards
Peter

Here are few more glazed pots for the spring.
This pots is suitable for flowering and fruit-bearing bonsai.


Size: 51 cm x 40 cm x 12 cm


Size: 53,8 cm x 44 cm x 12


Size: 46,8 cm x 38,8 cm x 10,8 cm

Best regards
Peter

Here are some new.


Size: 50 cm x 40 cm x 11 cm


Size: 36 cm x 33 cm x 10,3 cm


Size: 37 cm x 28,5 cm x 8 cm

Best regards
Peter

All pots are hand made without mould
fired to ca. 1220° C
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

Peter,

A very nice selection of glazed pots.

I particularly like the green glaze on the last pot. Nice character, it has good movement and visual depth. These are the qualities that I look for when developing a glaze.

I noticed from the photos that you use a lighter colored clay body for your glazed pots. Is this to show the glaze colors better?

Regards,
Paul

Hi Paul,

thank you for your evaluation.

Yes, the color of the clay is important for the glaze.

regards
Peter

... hopefully soon coming spring!




Size pot: 22 xm x 17,5 cm x 7,5 cm

regards
Peter

Pots are hand made without mould
fired to ca. 1220° C
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

... and here the red card for the winter !


Size: 12,5 cm x 10,3 cm x 4,6 cm


Size: 18,5 cm x 16 cm x 5,2 cm


Size : 24,5 cm x 19 cm x 6,7 cm


Size: 38,5 cm x 28,8 cm x 8,2 cm


47 cm x 35,3 cm x 8,2 cm

Best regards
Peter

All pots are hand made without mould and potterwheel
fired to ca. 1220° C
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

Lovely effect with your Red glazes!

Thanks for sharing Peter

Hi Rob,

Thank you for the fine assessment.

regards
Peter

The wild geese are coming back and their calls brighten up the soul.




Size: 20,5 cm x 12,7 cm x 7,7 cm

best regards
Peter
All pots are hand made without mould
fired to ca. 1220° C
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

the little pot without painting.



Best regards
Peter

This pot are hand made
fired to ca. 1220° C
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

Peter,
You are a master potter. No other comment is necessary.

Hi Luis,

Thanks a lot for your appreciation!

Your own pots demonstrate a great mastery too. You should really start again with pottery!

Architecture and pottery complement each other well.
Both come from the past and reach far into the future.
Ceramics can even reach many thousand years into the future, and it's exciting to be part of it!

Best regards
Peter

Melatonin goodbye, the spring comes, and with him the joy of life.

LISTEN, THE NIGHTINGALE
IN THE BLOSSOMS, AND THE FROG,
CROAKING IN THE WATER –
DOES NOT EACH OF THEM SING ITS SONG,
LIKE THE POET DOES HIS POEM?
... and the painter does his painting, the potter his jug? Like this, one could continue the spring poem of an unknown japanese artist. For sensible people spring is not only a feast for the eyes in the flowing world of creation and decay. It is fireworks for all senses, the great symbol of creation.
Shunga, which are also called spring pictures, are one facette of japanese art. They have the same power and mysterious magic as tea ceremony, the art of gardens and poems (Haiku, Tanka) for example and they are still highly appreciated in modern Japan. Spring pictures often have a double meaning. They are erotic illustrations that, in combination with the great adoration of nature, show an exhilarated lightness.
Often little erotic books were made from Shunga that men put discreetly beneath the pillow of their adored ones but they were also used as illustrations of various novels and plays.
Some scenes contain elements of caricature. The pleasures of love are universal and around the planet artists have pictured them freely, in which way ever, veiled or unveiled.

Peter Krebs

Size: Diameter: 14 cm x 12,3 cm hight
All pots are hand made without mould and potterwheel
fired to ca. 1220° C
Glaze fired to 1080° C
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

Beautiful beautiful work Peter. No different from the ancient Chinese pots I have seen in the Victoria & Albert museum in London. You are a true Master Potter

Thank you for showing your work and inspiring this Stone Monkey

Regards

Andy

Hello Andy,

thank you.

But, what is a master?, "The potter always works in a bent position."

regards
Peter

The fire has an image formed in the glaze, "The last snow of the mountains."



Size:45 cm x 35 cm x 9 cm

regards
Peter

This pots are hand made without mould
fired to ca. 1220° C
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

Peter,

What a breath of fresh air, your spring pots. Quite playful yet carried out with such traditional artistic finesse.

I also love the surface effect of that last oval. The variation of in the glaze surface is lovely and will make a great home for bonsai.

Thanks for sharing!

-Rob

Hi Rob,

thank you for the nice comment.

I'm really interested if you show us your new pots.

regatds
Peter

Here are two photos of bonsai in my pots.

California juniper
by John Yoshio Naka
Height: 90 cm



Gingko biloba
by Michael Kreuz
Height: 70 cm



regards
Peter
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THE WORLD OF THE POT: http://www.peter-krebs.de/

Your painted pots are beautiful Peter. They make me wonder how the erotic motif would go over here in the USA in a bonsai show?
Also, the potted pots are just gorgeous.

Dale