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Features
Brand
sobokai
Size
W406mm/ D133mm/ H28mm/
Material Number
material number4詳細
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Strong Color Shade Variations
Each piece has strong individual color shade variations. Affected by glazes and natural firing conditions such as changes in temperature, humidity and other climate elements and also how to receive the fire in the kiln chamber, each piece has own expression. It is really difficult to make the completed ware exactly same in color by firing and glazing even when the same materials are used. 100 pieces show 100 kinds of expressions, as it were.
Strong Color Irregularities
There are strong color irregularities of applying a glaze or slip, which are different from part to part in a piece of ware. For example, some parts are glazed thinly or thickly depending on the shape of the ware. That leads to part-to-part differences in appearance of the clay in a piece of ware.
Glaze or Slip Drips
The glaze or slip may look like dripping. There is unevenness of a glaze or slip when they are applied to ware by hand. There also appear glaze drips or slip drips, which are caused by the glaze or slip flows during firing.
Rough Clay
The surface may be rough due to the use of rough or coarse clay.
Pinholes
Pinholes may be seen clearly on the surface. Pottery (earthenware) is mainly made from earth, and green ware contains a lot of air while biscuit firing. While glazed firing, this air inside the biscuit ware becomes air bubbles, which remain and look like small holes on the surface of the glazed part. Those small holes are called pinholes.
Crazing (Chaps)
Crazing (having chaps) may appear clearly on the glazed part. The “direct” crazing means having chaps originally. The “aging” crazing means having chaps over time as you use the tableware item. There is a difference between the shrinkage rate of the glaze and that of the clay, so crazing occurs. Note that those cracks do not come from the damage of tableware items. They might appear just before use, but it is no problem in terms of use. They appear on the surface of pottery (earthenware) and semi-porcelain.
Light Pink Marks
Light pink marks may appear on the surface of tableware items. They appear when a component of the base clay becomes oxidized and then develops a color while fired. Interestingly, each tableware item has the “one of a kind” pattern of light pink marks because they appear depending on a variety of mixed conditions such as components of the base clay, glazes and firing settings, etc. You can enjoy the unique distinctiveness that adds to your own tableware item.
Warping
Warping in shape may be clearly seen. Ceramic ware is made out of clay, so even after formed, green ware is relatively soft and wobbly. Therefore, when it is made dry, it is affected by natural conditions such as temperature and humidity, so each piece may look different in size and shape and perhaps warping in shape may appear.
Microwave Safe
A microwave oven heats or cooks food very quickly using short electromagnetic waves, namely, microwaves. In most cases, the microwaves heat the water content of the food. However, in some cases, the microwaves concentrate on the carbonized (burnt) parts of the food, causing the temperature to rise higher than the other parts. For example, the microwaves concentrated on the carbonized (burnt) parts of stir-fried vegetables can create a large temperature difference in /on the tableware item, which may cause breakage. In addition to water content, oil content is also heated. The oil has a higher boiling point than the water, so it heats up at a higher temperature, creating a very large temperature difference between the parts that contain oil and the parts that do not, which can cause breakage.
・Never soak hot tableware in water or place it on the cold kitchen counter. Avoid rapidly heating frozen foods or putting [the cold tableware just taken out of the refrigerator] in the microwave. A rapid change in temperature will lead to “crazing” (chaps) or breakage.
※The products with gold or silver paintings, or applied with particular glazes are not microwave safe. We put a “Do Not Microwave” sticker on those items, so please confirm it.
※Accessories etc., made of other materials are excluded from microwave safe items.
Not Oven Safe
Not Dishwasher Safe
Material
陶器
やっと涼しく過ごしやすい季節になってきたと思ったら連日の夏日。
秋は一体いつ来るんでしょうか…。
ま、気温は秋にならなくても「食欲の秋」という言葉だけはフライングで使いますけどね。
なんだかこの言葉を使えば何でも食べていい気がして。
あと秋と言えば私の好きな果物、そう「洋ナシ」の旬ですね。
近くのスーパーに行ったら小さな洋ナシが6個で138円...。衝撃です。
迷わず購入してそのまま食べたり、ソースにしたり、コンポートにもしてみました。
秋の夜長。
一杯飲みながらの晩酌をすると大人になったなと思います。
ちょっと余談が多くなりましたがここでやっと器のお話を。
盛り付けているのは白化粧細長角皿。
こちらの器は職人さんが丹精込めて作っています。
なんと板状にした土を一枚一枚貼り付けて組み立てる製法で作っているんです。
ちょっとした歪みが手仕事ならではの味わいを生み出しています。
シンプルながらも存在感が抜群です。
うっすら透けて見えている黒い生地がまた風合いを出しています。
おにぎりや焼き鳥など身近な和食を盛り付けてもぐっとおいしそうに見せてくれますよ。
写真みたいにおしゃれな盛り付けにも負けません。
鮮やかな色合いも映えますし、フラットな盛り面なので立体的な盛り付けが活きますね。
サイズは3サイズ。
同じ形で黒土灰釉という器もあります。
白とはまた違うマットな質感で素朴な風合いが魅力的です。
写真のような芸術的な料理ではなくても、天ぷらやケーキを盛りつけても合うのでご安心を。
さぁ皆さんも、「食欲の秋」というフレーズを片手に
もう片手には白化粧土の器を持って秋を満喫しましょう!
気になった方はこちらから
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