Murata Yoshiki san is one of the excellent potters in Tokoname (常滑) where is the most famous place for production area of Japanese teapot (kyusu).
He is very good at modelling teapot using a pottery wheel and recently he has begun to make Chinese style teapot as well as Japanese style one.
I have once visited his atelier as well.
The lid was broken like this and very tiny pieces were gone.
Assembled tentativley as below.
Then I filled the fissures with 'kokuso' or lacquer clay and shaped.
The finish is 'tomonaoshi' that means to finish with the same color of the pottery
without spraying gold powder.
This is a Chinese style teapot whose spout and handle are on the same line.
