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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 up to a temperature of 1300
degrees Celcius.
Although Jiri produces a variety of
functional wares, it is his teabowls that I find most interesting and a few of
these that are currently available are shown above.
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