Shino ware

Shino ware (志野焼, Shino-yaki) is Japanese pottery, usually stoneware, originally from Mino Province, in present-day Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

It is identified by thick white glazes, red scorch marks, and a texture of small holes.

"[1] The first Shino ware was developed during the Momoyama period (1568–1600), in kilns in the Mino and Seto areas.

Working independently, in 1974, Virginia Wirt, a student of Warren MacKenzie at the University of Minnesota, developed a glaze formula that also sought to imitate the historical exemplars.

Her glaze, which added soda ash and spodumene to the base of feldspar and clays, was the first American Shino.

Although many different colorants and fluxes can be added, creating a wide range of effects, Shino glazes in America are all characterized by the use of soda ash and by a high ratio of alumina to silica.

Firings of Shino tend to be of lower temperature for a longer period of time, and then a slow cooling process.

Shino ware tea bowl furisode , Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period, 16th-17th century
Shino incense container ( kogo ) with sculpted figures of Jurojin with a crane and a tortoise in feldspar glaze by Masaki Sōzaburō , late Edo period , early 19th century
Shino ware shallow bowl, Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period, 16th-17th century
Nezumi-Shino ware, square dish with autumn grasses design, Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period, 16th-17th century