A thick, opaque, mostly-feldspar glaze fired to stoneware temperatures in reduction. Reads as creamy white with orange / red 'fire color' where the body shows through and where carbon trapping happens. The signature glaze of Mino-ware tea bowls, Japanese 16th-century onward. Crawls and pinholes are part of the character.
Glaze chemistry roughly 80% feldspar / 20% kaolin / minimal silica or flux additions — the simplest glaze recipe in the Japanese tradition. Fired to cone 9–11 (~1280–1300 °C) in heavy reduction. Carbon trapping (incomplete combustion of the reduction atmosphere produces free carbon that the glaze captures) gives the characteristic gray streaks and the 'hi-iro' fire-color flashing on the body. Modern American shino (Malcolm Davis, c. 1980s) added soda ash for more pronounced carbon trapping. Surface character: thick, slightly crawled, often pinholed — defects in industrial pottery, signatures in tea-ceremony work.
character — creamy white with orange fire-flashing, thick crawled surface, tea-ceremony register.
Robin Hopper The Ceramic Spectrum (Krause, 2nd ed.); Daniel Rhodes Clay and Glazes for the Potter.
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