TEMMOKU
These enamels dating from the Sung dynasty it was nail color dark reddish brown to black, very shiny crystals of iron were present, and according to the characteristics of these crystals can be called: oil Mancha, reddish brown to black with silver circular crystals. hare or rabbit skin , clear reddish brown color with darker vertical striations, partridge feather, clear reddish brown color crystallizations in the dark with semicircular strips oriented vertically, Kaki, reddish brown color, bright without crystallization.
Paradoxically, this type of glaze of Chinese origin we know by the name of Temmoku, word of Japanese origin meaning eyes in the sky, perhaps because its dark color symbolizes the night sky and its stars crystallization. The reason of this name do not know. In Chinese is called yao Chien, Chien corresponds to a type of ceramic production in southern China, and Yao is a Chinese term ceramics.
These enamels are characterized by dark and bright coloration, usually a deep black of great beauty, which may have crystals, and usually clear at the edges of the pieces, or areas by runoff of the enamel decreases its thickness, and transparency reveals the body that contains it.
The Temmoku owe their color to iron oxide, which can be provided as ocher, iron oxide, iron oxide, ferrites, ferruginous clay (low melting point and high iron content, etc.).; Is common incorporating ashes as a flux.
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