A Potter's Book
Recommended by Edmund de Waal, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #8 in Pottery
This now famous book was the first treatise to be written by a potter on the workshop traditions handed down by Koreans and Japanese from the greatest period of Chinese ceramics in the Sung dynasty. It deals with four types of pottery: Japanese raku, English slipware, stoneware and oriental porcelain. With its help, potters can learn how to adapt recipes for pigments and glazes, and designs of kilns, to local conditions. It gives a vivid workshop picture of the making of a kiln-load of pots from start to finish, and is eloquent on the position of the individual or artist-potter in an... more
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Edmund de Waal Incredibly important because of its ability to allow any reader who picks it up to understand the excitement and energy of the making of pots. (Source)
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