Yauatcha Tea Set
Tea Set
2006 (designed), 2008 (made)
2006 (designed), 2008 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The leaflet that comes with the tea set, written in slightly peculiar English, reads:
Japanese Tea Set / Designed for Yauatcha / by Shin Azumi
Teapot / Teacup 2 / Teacup Saucer 2 / Tray
YAUATCHA
Yauatcha / 15 Broadwick Street / London W1F 0DL
Produced using traditional Japanese craft methods
Hand crafted teapots and teacups made in Tokonami [sic], one of the oldest ceramic regions in Japan, famous for its quality unglazed earthenware [sic].
The use of extremely fine grained clay, typically produced in this area, makes the clay water impermeable even without a glaze, and because of this quality, the tokoname [sic] teapot is renowned as the best quality in Japan.
Bunaco tea saucer and tray made in Aomori, Japan, set amidst the Shirakami mountains, a registered World Heritage site for having nurtured the earth's most valuable virgin beech forest.
A contemporary design using a unique ecological technology, Bunaco ware creates stunning shapes using thin strips of high grain beech to achieve three dimensional shapes not normally possible with any other type of wood.
This product is not suitable for dishwashing, please hand wash only and dry carefully.
Japanese Tea Set / Designed for Yauatcha / by Shin Azumi
Teapot / Teacup 2 / Teacup Saucer 2 / Tray
YAUATCHA
Yauatcha / 15 Broadwick Street / London W1F 0DL
Produced using traditional Japanese craft methods
Hand crafted teapots and teacups made in Tokonami [sic], one of the oldest ceramic regions in Japan, famous for its quality unglazed earthenware [sic].
The use of extremely fine grained clay, typically produced in this area, makes the clay water impermeable even without a glaze, and because of this quality, the tokoname [sic] teapot is renowned as the best quality in Japan.
Bunaco tea saucer and tray made in Aomori, Japan, set amidst the Shirakami mountains, a registered World Heritage site for having nurtured the earth's most valuable virgin beech forest.
A contemporary design using a unique ecological technology, Bunaco ware creates stunning shapes using thin strips of high grain beech to achieve three dimensional shapes not normally possible with any other type of wood.
This product is not suitable for dishwashing, please hand wash only and dry carefully.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Parts | This object consists of 7 parts.
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| Title | Yauatcha Tea Set (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Unglazed and partially glazed stoneware; turned, stained and polished beechwood |
| Brief description | Tea set, with two tea cups, two saucers, lidded teapot and oblong tray, stoneware and beechwood, designed by Shin Azumi, London, 2006, for Yauatcha, made in Japan, 2008. |
| Physical description | The tea set consists of a lidded teapot, two cups, two saucers and an oblong tray on which the various component parts can be placed. The dark grey unglazed stoneware teapot is of squat globular form and has a short spout and a longer side-handle attached at right-angles to each other. There is a mesh insert inside the teapot to prevent the tea leaves from blocking the spout. The two round tea cups are unglazed externally but have a pale turquoise glaze on their interiors. The round saucers and oblong tray consist of beechwood cores around which long, thin beechwood strips have been wound. These were turned, stained black and then polished so that the grain of the timber and the striated pattern of the tightly wound strips are visible. |
| Style | |
| Credit line | Given by the designer |
| Summary | The leaflet that comes with the tea set, written in slightly peculiar English, reads: Japanese Tea Set / Designed for Yauatcha / by Shin Azumi Teapot / Teacup 2 / Teacup Saucer 2 / Tray YAUATCHA Yauatcha / 15 Broadwick Street / London W1F 0DL Produced using traditional Japanese craft methods Hand crafted teapots and teacups made in Tokonami [sic], one of the oldest ceramic regions in Japan, famous for its quality unglazed earthenware [sic]. The use of extremely fine grained clay, typically produced in this area, makes the clay water impermeable even without a glaze, and because of this quality, the tokoname [sic] teapot is renowned as the best quality in Japan. Bunaco tea saucer and tray made in Aomori, Japan, set amidst the Shirakami mountains, a registered World Heritage site for having nurtured the earth's most valuable virgin beech forest. A contemporary design using a unique ecological technology, Bunaco ware creates stunning shapes using thin strips of high grain beech to achieve three dimensional shapes not normally possible with any other type of wood. This product is not suitable for dishwashing, please hand wash only and dry carefully. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FE.4 to 7-2009 |
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| Record created | May 18, 2009 |
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