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Jiri Duchek was born in
Prague in 1970 and after the former Czechoslovakia was liberated in 1989 he worked
as a jigger-man at a ceramic workshop in the capital and studied at a local
school of Arts and Crafts. In 1995 he set up his first workshop in Prague and
combined this with teaching at a College of Education but wanted to move out
into the country in order to develop his pottery techniques. This he did in
1999 when he moved to a former farmhouse in the Czech Republic near to
Mutejovice. There he uses local materials in his clay bodies and glazes and
wood to fire his work.
Although
Jiri produces a variety of functional wares, it is his teabowls that I find
most interesting and a selection of these is shown below. These were all
fired to 1300 degrees Celcius and display a range of his work using shino
glazes.
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