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American,
b. 1965
Vase
1996
6.75 x 6 x 6 in.
Gift of the Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation
1996.34
Johnson explored many techniques and processes including wood firing, salt firing, reduction cooling, and slip casting before settling on Chinese ceramic technology and aesthetics for his master’s thesis topic. He was fascinated with Chinese pottery, being particularly interested in the glazes produced during the Song dynasty, China’s golden age of ceramics. Guan pottery is an exotic celadon ware produced exclusively for the imperial household, and is relative rare in modern studio pottery. Johnson was interested in recreating the symbiosis between glaze, clay body, and form that is the essence of the Guan mystique. Typical is the thick, soft glaze and stained crackle pattern seen in Vase. This clay body is a moderate iron stoneware developed from actual Song dynasty sherd analyses. Vase was fired in a reduction atmosphere at a high temperature, making the surface a stony satin matte. The widely spaced crackle pattern was achieved through painstaking glaze testing and stained with calligraphy ink.
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